Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes - Famous Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith
Born: 1865-10-18
Died: 1946-03-02
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
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Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Natur
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I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
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If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
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It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
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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.
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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.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"
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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Natur
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There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Natur
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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know
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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.
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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, Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
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Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
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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 music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
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