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Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He may be best remembered for his autobiography, Unforgotten Years.

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But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

Animal, Man, Men, Political

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

Entirely, Income, Matter, Solvency, Temperament

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Behavior, Bottled, Essence, Integrity, Names, Past

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Artist, Artists, Devil, Familiar, Popular Song, Traps

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

Art, Gallery, National, Soul

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Blooms, Meaning Of Life, Rarest, Razors, Side, Sides

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

Conscience, Funny, Live, People, Soul

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

Mirrors, People, Reflection, See, Self, Unexpected

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

Fashion, Fashionable, Firsts, Rate

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.

Mirrors, Self, People, Public, Faint

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

Eye, Eyes, Safe, Scrapes, Way

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Adventure, Birthday, Body, Mind, Time

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?

Age, Alas, Death, Stars, Tears, Writing

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

Big, House, Houses, Hypocrisy, Hypocrite, Strict

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

Age, Nice, Reading, Selfish, Serene

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

Reprobates, Reputation, Unkind, World

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.

Eaten, Friendship, Lives, Needs, Old Friends, Version

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

Bullets, Full, Killed, Men, Whiskey

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

Fascination, Hate, Moth, Star, Stars

Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.

Kept, Kept Woman, Married, Married Women, Theyare, Women

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