Logan Pearsall Smith
English writer
Lived from: 1865 - 1946
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 18 october 1865 Died: 2 march 1946
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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
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A bestseller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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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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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable to joy.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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