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

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The enemy of the human race. . . invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

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When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

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The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.

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