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Logan Pearsall Smith

Top 10 Best Quotes

“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.”

“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.”

“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, life-long intoxication.”

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

“Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.”

“Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither;—these make the finest company in the world.”

“Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.”

“Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.”

“What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thoughts; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. They would make my fortune if I could catch them; but always the rarest, those freaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.”

“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”

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