When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Logan Pearsall Smith in Afterthoughts, Other People (1931)
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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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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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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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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
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