Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith
All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Smith, Logan Pearsall
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
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If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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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.
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Smith, Logan Pearsall