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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

«That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.»
«There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | Keywords: avail, poignant
«Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Vanity | Keywords: chained, pad, padded
«He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.»
«Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.»
«Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.»
«People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.»
«All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for»
«When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter»
«Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Heaven

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