Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes (49 quotes)

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„There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.“
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„The newest books are those that never grow old.“
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„Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.“
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„Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.“
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„He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.“
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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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„Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.“
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„The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.“
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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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„What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?“
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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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„What's 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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„What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.“
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„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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„Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.“
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„Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.“
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„There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.“
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„The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.“
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„Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.“

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Logan Pearsall Smith
Author born: October 18, 1865
Author died: March 02, 1946
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Writer

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