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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

«You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Excellence, Fashion | Keywords: fashionable
«There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.»
«What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Mankind | Keywords: humbugged, humbugs
«We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.»
«Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.»
«What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.»
«Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | Keywords: span
«It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Men | Keywords: graciously, tactfully
«If we're told that an odd piece of our china is worth a hundred pounds, - how rare its beauty!»
«This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication»

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