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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

«To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave the way the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Wealth | Keywords: Supposing
«The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Advice | Keywords: persist, persist in
«Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.»
«What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?»
«The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | Keywords: bewildered
«Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out»
«The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Youth | Keywords: assists, denunciation, hygiene
«There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine»
«There are such astonishing things to be told about men and women, and hardly a man or woman to whom one dares to tell them»
«We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever renewed audiences before to reenact an ideal version of their lives»

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