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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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

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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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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

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