Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Logan Pearsall Smith's Popular Quotes

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

- Logan Pearsall Smith

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

- Logan Pearsall Smith

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

- Logan Pearsall Smith