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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) 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 stay sober  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) 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  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny in the slot machines that are almost always empty  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) 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  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave just as outrageously as the world will let them  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) All our affirmations are mere matters of chronology; and even our bad taste is nothing more than the bad taste of the age we live in  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) The vitality of a new movement in art or letters can be pretty accurately gauged by the fury it arouses  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes) It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each other's stories; for it they did not, they would burst  (Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes)
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