80 ordspråk av Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith
A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
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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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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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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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An improper mind is a perpetual feast
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you
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Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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Eat with the Rich, but go to the play with the Poor, who are capable of Joy
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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