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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
World
Reputations
Unkind
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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
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