Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(290 votes)   The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(281 votes)   When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(255 votes)   How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(249 votes)   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?

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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

Logan P. Smith

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(196 votes)   There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(186 votes)   What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(182 votes)   Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(177 votes)   Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(162 votes)   If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(161 votes)   The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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