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From Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith
- Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
- Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
- It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.
- Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
- A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
- When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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