Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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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
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

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If we disregard what the world says of someone, we live to repent it.

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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

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It is just as well to be a little giddy-pated, if you're to feel at home on this turning earth.

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All our affirmations are mere matters of chronology; and our bad taste nothing more than the bad taste of the age we live in.

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Those who are contemptuous of everyone are more than anyone terrified of contempt.

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I like diaphanous illusions, with the shapes of things as they are showing not too faintly through them.

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If you set out to fight the battles of discredited people, don't be too much surprised when they snipe at you from the rear.

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Parents used to care more for their money than their family; now they have to pay for their children's friendship through the nose.

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Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

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I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

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It is interesting to peep through most keyholes, but not into the bedrooms of married people.

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The flavour of social success is delicious, though gravely scorned by those to whose lips the cup has not been proffered.

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The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

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To count all things as vanity and yet nothing as vain; to wander through the show of things without illusion, or care, or desire, or disappointment; is not this (for why art thou proud, O Dust and Ashes?) the way to walk the London streets?

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If you try hard enough to seem to like pictures, you will like them in the end.

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The hallucinations of sex are not to be trusted, but we can count on our worldly illusions to keep us company to the grave.

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It's an odd thing about this Universe that though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

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Slavery and Infamy are the merited chastisements of Success.

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There is a toad in every social dish, however well they cook it.

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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave just as outrageously as the world will let them.

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Amid the mirrored corridors, the fountains and gardens of the Versailles within me, struts his bewigged majesty, my Soul.

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If you eradicate a fault, you leave room for a worse fault to take root and flourish.

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There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them, I shudder.

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An act of folly isn't foolish, when you know it for the folly it is.

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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn.

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

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And the tremendous Enigma which so troubled the soul of King David — the prosperity of the Wicked, and the Righteous as withered grass — this moral paradox does not spoil my appetite in the least.

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What a joy to find suddenly among strangers a fish from our little swarm of fishes, a bee from our hive!

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