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" There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. "
Logan Pearsall Smith
Good
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Avail
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" The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. "
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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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" If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. "
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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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" He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. "
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" The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. "
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" The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. "
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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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" Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. "
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" The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. "
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" I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. "
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" Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God. "
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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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" People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. "
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" Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of 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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" Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. "
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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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" The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. "
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" To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. "
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" 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. "
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" If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. "
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" A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. "
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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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" Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. "
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" Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. "
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" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "
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