80 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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 What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

 When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors

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

 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.

 You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate


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