I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Logan Pearsall Smith in Afterthoughts, Age and Death (1931)
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true
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All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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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 in Afterthoughts, Other People (1931)
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
Logan Pearsall Smith in Afterthoughts, Life and Human Nature
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The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
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There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
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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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