Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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• How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
• We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
• If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
• What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
• There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
• Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
• For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
• The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
• One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
• Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.
• Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
• If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
• Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
• Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
• The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to…
• What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of…
• Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
• The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

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