“We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conscience
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“What’s more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can’t hear what they say?”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Children
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“Don’t let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Soul
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“There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Lying
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“If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away?”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Joy
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“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Gossip
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“Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn’t a God.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: God
