About Logan Pearsall Smith
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language...
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
I can't forgive my friends for dying. I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
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