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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
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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.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
- 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"
- 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"
- What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
- The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- 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"
- 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 Nature"
- There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
- 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 Nature"
- People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
- 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"
- Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
- 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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