Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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Logan Pearsall Smith

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 18, 1865

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Logan Pearsall Smith

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

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

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

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

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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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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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Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

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If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

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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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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 stay sober.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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