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Occup.	Writer
From	USA
Died	1946
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Logan P. Smith was a famous Writer from USA.

Our collection contains 33 quotes written by Logan, under the main topics: Witty One-Liners - Wisdom - Art - Friendship - Love.

33 Famous quotes by Logan P. Smith

"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers"

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"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood"

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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading"

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"Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers"

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"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously"

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"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in"

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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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"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own"

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"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"

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"There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine"

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"People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror"

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"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people"

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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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"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter"

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"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste"

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

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"There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation"

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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail"

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

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"The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered"

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"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it"

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"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income"

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"Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds"

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"If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul"

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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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"A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent"

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"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior"

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"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth"

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"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend"

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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses"

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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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"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second"

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"The newest books are those that never grow old"

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