Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes - Page 5

• People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  People, Censorship, Kind

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• How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  People, Gossip, Awful

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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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

  Nature, Phrases, Pursuit

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