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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Category: Age Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Category: Beauty Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Category: Charm Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.
Category: Conformity Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Category: Daydreaming Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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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.
Category: Happiness Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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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.
Category: Integrity Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Category: Integrity Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Category: Money Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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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.
Category: Money Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
Category: Money Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Category: Perspective Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?
Category: Risk Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators.
Category: Self Discovery Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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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.
Category: Teenagers Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Category: Vanity Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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