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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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The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best. The complete explanation of any fact is the very last step in human thought; and it is reached, as I have said, if indeed it is ever reached, by the preliminary processes of recognition, designation, and definition. It is with these preliminary processes that our aesthetic criticism is still occupied.
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What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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Those who like the same thing find it the hardest thing in the world to hate each other.
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People not born on the top of the social tree must have climbed to get there.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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Moralists who tell you that Envy is the only vice without a pleasure, have never seen themselves in the eyes of envy.
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Little superstitions are spiders of the mind. Look out! Brush 'em away, or they'll choke it.
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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Nice men are not nice-minded, but — with a few sublime exceptions — nice women are.
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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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