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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/all-our-lives-we-are-putting-pennies-our-most-golden-pennies-into/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

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## More by Logan Pearsall Smith

> [The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/the-indefatigable-pursuit-of-an-unattainable-perfection-even-though/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/if-you-want-to-be-thought-a-liar-always-tell-the-truth/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/all-reformers-however-strict-their-social-conscience-live-in-houses/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/the-ladies-who-try-to-keep-their-beauty-are-the-ladies-who-lose-it/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/youth-is-the-time-for-adventures-of-the-body-but-age-for-the-triumphs/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/every-author-however-modest-keeps-a-most-outrageous-vanity-chained/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/if-you-are-losing-your-leisure-look-out-you-are-losing-your-soul/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/one-s-own-vanities-and-humiliations-i-find-a-delicious-subject-for/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/the-word-snob-belongs-to-the-sour-grape-vocabulary/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/those-who-set-out-to-serve-both-god-and-mammon-soon-discover-that/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/hearts-that-are-delicate-and-kind-and-tongues-that-are-neither-these/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/whiskey-has-killed-more-men-than-bullets-but-most-men-would-rather-be/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/style-is-a-magic-wand-and-turns-everything-to-gold-that-it-touches/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/when-elderly-invalids-meet-with-fellow-victims-of-their-own-ailments/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

> [Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/fine-writers-should-split-hairs-together-and-sit-side-by-side-like/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

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