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Famous Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

Famous quotes made by the American essayist and critic, Logan Pearsall Smith. He was born in Millville, New Jersey, USA, on October 18, 1865. and died in London om March 2, 1946.

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We are told by moralists with the plainest faces that immorality will spoil our looks.

Thank heavens! The sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

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

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

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

How I should like to distil my disesteem of my contemporaries into prose so perfect that all of them would have to read it!

When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

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

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No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.

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