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What Is More Mortifying Than To Feel That You Have Missed The Plum For Want Of Courage To Shake The Tree?
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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum
for want of courage to shake the tree?
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover there is no God.
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