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Letter "L" » 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.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
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«There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.»
«Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.»
«He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
«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.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
«All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
«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»
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