Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

• La gente dice que la vida es lo más, pero yo prefiero leer.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Divertido, Vida, Ingenioso

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

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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.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Vida, Felicidad, Inspiración

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Remembrance, Tests, Enjoyment

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• Lo que me gusta de un buen autor no es lo que dice, sino lo que susurra.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspiración, Libro, Escritura

  All Trivia (1933) "Afterthoughts" pt. 5

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• ¡Qué tontos somos, que pretendemos vivir para la belleza, y nunca vemos el amanecer!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspiración, Vida, Belleza

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

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  Friendship, Old Friends, Needs

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, House

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Other People'

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• Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, People, Soul

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

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• ¿Qué hay más mortificante que sentir que se te ha escapado la ciruela por falta de valor para sacudir el árbol?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Courage, Bravery, Tree

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Mind, Ethics, Perpetual

  Afterthoughts ch. 1 (1931)

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• If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Time, Work, Soul

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• Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Happiness, Book, Reading

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

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  Vida, Felicidad, Éxito

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, Carpe Diem, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Equality, Odd Things, Disagree

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• We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Two, Complaining

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Love, Friendly, Amusement

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• But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

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  Death, Stars, Writing

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• This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Selfish, Nice, Reading

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• Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Income, Matter, Temperament

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Hay más felicidad en el otro lado de la calvicie de lo que los jóvenes pueden imaginar.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Men, Age, Sides

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Eye, Safe, Way

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Moon, Echoes, Hair

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• There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sorrow, Income

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• 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 Pearsall Smith

  Inspiración, Vida, Cumpleaños

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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