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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
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Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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