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Logan P. Smith
American
Writer
About the author
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Years
#Joy
#Unhappiness
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#People
#Blood
#Hygiene
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Old
#Books
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Want
#Old
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Love
#Vocation
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Art
#Vitality
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Income
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#People
#Houses
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.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Want
#First
#Mankind
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Men
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#God
#Mammon
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Day
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Want
#Courage
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#People
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#People
#Being
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Ecstasy
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Man
#Sound
#Advice
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#People
#Conscience
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#May
#Losing
#Soul
#Leisure
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Want
#Thought
#Truth
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.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Youth
#Trying
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?
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Life
#Success
#Years
#Being
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Vanity
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#People
#World
#Charm
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.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Life
#Information
#Mind
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Love
#Malice
#Amusement
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Life
#Man
#Friend
#Succeed
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Talent
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Sun
#Heaven
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Past
#Behavior
#Names
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Income
#Temperament
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Life
#People
#Reading
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Will
#Writers
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.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Life
#People
#Public
#Thought
#Self
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith,
American
Writer
#Happiness
#Taste
#Wine