Best Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith (Top 10)
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
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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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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
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Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches
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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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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom 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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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own
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More Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul
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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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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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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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A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds
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