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Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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"Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for."
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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"There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail."
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people."
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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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 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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"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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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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"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."
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"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers."
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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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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"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 achi"
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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 al"
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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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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"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in."
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"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."
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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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"We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast."
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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 kn"
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"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."
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"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always pu"
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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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"An improper mind is a perpetual feast."
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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 t"
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"If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul."
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