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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
World
Reputations
Unkind
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Worse

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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories for it they did not, they would burst.
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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
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