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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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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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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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There is one thing that matters – to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Eat with the Rich, but go to the play with the Poor, who are capable of Joy.
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The world, as I know from my books, is full of abominable evil; even some of these books have never been returned.
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When people come and talk to you of their aspirations, before they leave you'd better count your spoons.
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Those who say everything is pleasant and everyone delightful, come to the awful fate of believing what they say.
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How hard it is for the Good to go wrong! I seem to find all the pleasant paths of Transgression barred and barricaded against me.
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If with an excess of interest you peer into the lives of other people, what you will probably find is that you have to pay their debts.
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Goodness isn't enough; but what delicate glaze it gives to people who are good as well as charming!
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The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril.
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All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find it out.
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It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.
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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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We live in a world of monkeys; but often monkeys, at a distance, look like men.
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.
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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.
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Born:
October 18, 1865
Died:
March 2, 1946
(aged 80)
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Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines.
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More trivia (1921)
The youth of Parnassus and other stories (1895)
A few practical suggestions (1920)
All trivia (1933)
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