Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
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The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
[Happiness]
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.
[Money]
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
[Sorrow]
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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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.
[Goals]
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
[Concentration]
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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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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
[Friendship]
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
[Mornings]
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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?
[Courage]
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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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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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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