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Logan Pearsall Smith [1865-1946] American

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Writer, Essayist

Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines.

Funny, Age, Art, Communication, Courage, Great, Happiness, Life, Sad, Success, Truth, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.	Funny, Life	101
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.	Happiness	102
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.		103
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.		104
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.	Great, Wisdom	105
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.		106
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.	Funny, Truth	107
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.		108
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.		109
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?	Courage	110
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.	Funny	111
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.	Art	112
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.	Age	113
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.		114
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.		115
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.		116
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.		117
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.		118
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!		119
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.		120
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?	Success	121
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.		122
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.		123
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.		124
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.		125
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.		126
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.		201
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.		202
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.	Sad	203
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.		204
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.		205
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.		206
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.		207
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.		208
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.		209
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.		210
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.	Communication	211
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?		212
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.		213
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?		214
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.		215
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.		216
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!		217
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.		218
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.		219
The newest books are those that never grow old.		220
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.		221
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.		222
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.		223

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