Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes About Literature
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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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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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.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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