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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
Author
Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Reputations
Unkind
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Worse
World

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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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