Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
Born: 18 October 1865, Millville, New Jersey
Died: 2 March 1946,
Pearsall Smith was born to prominent Quaker parents, his father's family owned glass factories. He lived for a time in England but attended Haverford College (a Quaker school near Philadelphia) and Harvard College, then graduated in 1891 from Balliol College, Oxford. He remained in England, taking British citizenship in 1913. As far as I can tell, he spent the rest of his life writing, apparently slowly and carefully. That's not entirely a bad thing, his epigrams are well polished gems. Note: If you have more detail, please use the error-reporting link at the bottom of the page.
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- A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - An improper mind is a perpetual feast. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - Eat with the Rich, but go to the play with the Poor, who are capable of Joy. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither, these make the finest company in the world. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith - How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true. permalink
Logan Pearsall Smith
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