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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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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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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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