Pearsall Smith

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“What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)