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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
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Reputation
Worse
World
Reputations
Unkind

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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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