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QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Logan Pearsall Smith
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Quotes By author - Starting with L - Logan Pearsall Smith
There are 46 quotes for the author Logan Pearsall Smith
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Subject:  Money   
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of the blood.
Subject:  Age   
The newest books are those that never grow old.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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.

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?

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

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.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

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.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

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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