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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6808/">Quotes by <em>Smith, Logan Pearsall</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Logan Pearsall Smith (October 18, 1865-March 2, 1946) was an American essayist and critic who settled in London. He was known for his aphorisms and epigrams. His autobiography Unforgotten Years (1938) is probably now his best known work. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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

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

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"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"

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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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"Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish."

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"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."

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

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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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"Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God."

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