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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Born: October 18, 1865
Died: March 2, 1946 (aged 80)
Bio: Logan Pearsall Smith 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.
Known for:
- More trivia (1921)
- The youth of Parnassus and other stories (1895)
- A few practical suggestions (1920)
- All trivia (1933)
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