May it [the opposition to fine writing] be accounted for by… - Logan Pearsall Smith

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May it [the opposition to fine writing] be accounted for by the fact that the spirit of Puritanism, having been banished from the province of moral conduct, has found a refuge among the 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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That one should practice what one preaches is generally agreed, but anyone who has the indiscretion to preach what both he and his hearers practice must always incur—as Lord Chesterfield has incurred—the gravest moral reprobation.

All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

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

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