Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts… - Logan Pearsall Smith

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Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts of success than the frank description of those arts.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith (October 18, 1865 – March 2, 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.

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Alternative Names: Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith

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Then I thought of reading — the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, life-long intoxication.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

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