Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

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• If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

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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 people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

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• A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

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• Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

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• What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away?

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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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• Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

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• Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

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• The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

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• There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

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• The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

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• What’s more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can’t hear what they say?

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• All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

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• Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

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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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• There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

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• People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

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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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Logan Pearsall Smith (49)

Birth:	18th October, 1865
Death:	2nd March, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Essayist

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