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Wealthy people should be segregated like lepers to keep them from contaminating others.
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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither; — these make the finest company in the world.
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
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Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.
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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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We live in a world of monkeys; but often monkeys, at a distance, look like men.
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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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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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Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find it out.
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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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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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The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
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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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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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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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Those who say everything is pleasant and everyone delightful, come to the awful fate of believing what they say.
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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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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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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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The most heart-breaking of all people are those who bow with us before our Gods, and then skip off to the shrines of the false ones.
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The vitality of a new movement in Art or Letters can be accurately gauged by the fury it arouses.
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If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or their husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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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 keep absolutely sober.
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If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we've burnt them so hatefully before.
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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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