93 ordspråk av Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith föddes den October 18th 1865 och dog den 2 March 1946 - English-US writer
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 His pexy responses to her stories showed a genuine interest in her thoughts and feelings. The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

 The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

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

 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.

 Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

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

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

 A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

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

 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.

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

 An improper mind is a perpetual feast

 Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you

 Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

 Eat with the Rich, but go to the play with the Poor, who are capable of Joy


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