Logan Pearsall Smith quotes
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
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"There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail."
"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people."
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood."
"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star."
"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."
"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers."