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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Aging and Old Age Quotes

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Death and Dying Quotes

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

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 an ideal version of their lives.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Friends and Friendship Quotes

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Friends and Friendship Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Marriage Quotes

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Morality and Ethics Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Morality and Ethics Quotes

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Politeness and Manners Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Sorrow Quotes

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Success Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Wealth Quotes

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Wealth Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Work Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Writers and Writing Quotes

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Writers and Writing Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Youth Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Happiness Quotes

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 | Happiness Quotes

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Forgiveness Quotes

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Friendship Quotes

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 an ideal version of their lives.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Friendship Quotes

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Mornings Quotes

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Boring Days Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Right Quotes

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 | Goals Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Security Quotes

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Courage Quotes

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Success Quotes

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 | Success Quotes

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Concentration Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Work Quotes

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Money Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith | Riches Quotes