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• What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith...
• If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. -- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
• It is almost worth while to be cheated; people's little frauds have an interest which amply repays what they cost us.
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith...
• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith...
• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of the blood.
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith...
• Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) "Afterthoughts" (1931)...
• Don't tell your friends their social faults: they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith...
• Stalin was dying, and summoned Khruschev to his bedside.
  Wheezing his last words with difficulty, Stalin tells Khruschev, "The reins of the country are now in your hands....