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Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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 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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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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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

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

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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 more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

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

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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

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

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Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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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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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

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It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

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

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

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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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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

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

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

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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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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

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