Pearsall Smith

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“Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“There is one thing that matters—to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)