The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
About Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smithwas an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th century divines.
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn’t a God.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither – these make the finest company in the world.
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
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There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.
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Don’t let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
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I can’t forgive my friends for dying; I don’t find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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