Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes - Page 5

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• One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Vanity, Gossip, Behind My Back

  Logan Pearsall Smith, Edwin Tribble (1984). “A chime of words: the letters of Logan Pearsall Smith”

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• We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Soul, Dew, Should

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Views, Quality, Adjectives

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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