“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 keep absolutely sober.”

—  Logan Pearsall Smith

In the World.
Afterthoughts (1931)

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British American-born writer 1865–1946

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