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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
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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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
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?
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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By AnonymLogan Pearsall Smith
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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