Logan Pearsall Smith - People Quotes

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

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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

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

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There are people I know such horrid things about, that I feel ashamed of myself when I meet them in drawing-rooms, making a good impression.

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

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When I see those beautiful and mysterious apparitions we call people, I like to think of their adorations one for another; how they love to gaze in the mirrors of each other's eyes.

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Words aren't always mere words: a few inaudible articulations may fetter two people together for life.

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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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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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Wealthy people should be segregated like lepers to keep them from contaminating others.

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

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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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I hate having new books forced upon me, but how I love cram-throating other people with 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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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

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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.

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The tone of people with low aims is always a high one: the talk of those who live purely for the Good is appalling.

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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

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There are men and women born into the world to do its work and win its prizes; others, simply to look on and see what happens. These two kinds of people feel ashamed when they meet each other.

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It is a matter of life and death for married people to tell each other's stories; if they didn't, they would burst.

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Why are happy people not afraid of Death, while the insatiable and the unhappy so abhor that grim Feature?

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When we see what people we like will do for money, best it is to be sad and say nothing.

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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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It is the misery of young people that they have to read one another's books.

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There are people who are beautiful in dilapidation, like old houses that were hideous when new.

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People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

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