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“The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“Don’t let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“Not ringed but rare, not gilled but polyp-like, having sprung up
overnight—

These mushrooms of the gods, resembling human organs uprooted,
rooted only on the air,”
—William Jay Smith (b. 1918)