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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

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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
Lives
Slot
Always
Penny
Pennies
Golden
Putting
Machines
Empty
Almost
Curmudgeon

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