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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 (1865 - 1946), 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 (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
- 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 (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"
- Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
- Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936), The Hour of Decision, 1933
- It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography (1937)
- Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
- I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
- The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
- Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), Eminent Victorians (1918)
- My music is best understood by children and animals.
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
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