Logan Pearsall Smith

Also known as Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

5 total works indexed

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“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.”
“Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”
“I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.”
“What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?”
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.”

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Instance of: human
Given name: Logan
Family name: Smith
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Millville
Place of death: London
Mother: Hannah Whitall Smith
Sibling: Alys Pearsall Smith
Occupation: literary critic
Educated at: Balliol College
Languages spoken: English language
Field of work: epigram
Image: Lady Henry Somerset with Hannah Whitall Smith, Mary Brenson, Logan Pearsall Smith, Karin Stephen and Ray Strachey.jpg