Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

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• 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.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Remembrance, Tests, Enjoyment

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• Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

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  Birthday, Adventure, Mind

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• What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

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  Inspirational, Book, Writing

  All Trivia (1933) "Afterthoughts" pt. 5

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• If it's to be, it's up to me.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Ifs

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• The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

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• What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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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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  Equality, Odd Things, Disagree

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• Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, People, Soul

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

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• What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Courage, Bravery, Tree

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• 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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  Selfish, Nice, Reading

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• If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Witty, Truth

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Happiness, Book, Reading

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

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  Money, Carpe Diem, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

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  Love, Friendly, Amusement

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• We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Two, Complaining

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• All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

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  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, House

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Other People'

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• If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

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  Time, Work, Soul

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• Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

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  Income, Matter, Temperament

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

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  Eye, Safe, Way

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Mystical Experiences, Boredom, Bored

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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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  Blood, Hygiene, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

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  Beauty, Trying, Loses

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• There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

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  Sorrow, Income

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