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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.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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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?
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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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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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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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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Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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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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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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 keep absolutely sober.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know
By Logan Pearsall Smith
There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
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.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
By Logan Pearsall Smith
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
By Logan Pearsall Smith