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Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith

English writer

Lived from: 1865 - 1946

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 18 october 1865 Died: 2 march 1946

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  • People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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  • Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
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  • That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
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  • The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
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  • The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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  • The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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  • The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
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  • The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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  • The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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  • The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. 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.
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  • Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
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  • There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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  • 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.
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  • There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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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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  • Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
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  • Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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  • We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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  • What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
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  • What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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