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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...
• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.
  Only the wisest of people achieve the second. -- Logan Pearsall Smith...
• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. -- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
• 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)...
• Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)...
• If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
• All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom, I have been pouring van-loads of information into the vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
  Logan Pearsall Smith...