Tag: Logan Pearsall Smith

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know

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To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

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Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.

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

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

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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can’t hear what they say

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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

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