Afterthoughts
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Source: All trivia: Trivia, More trivia, Afterthoughts, Last words
Source: All trivia: Trivia, More trivia, Afterthoughts, Last words
Source: All trivia: Trivia, More trivia, Afterthoughts, Last words
Source: All trivia: Trivia, More trivia, Afterthoughts, Last words
Source: All trivia: Trivia, More trivia, Afterthoughts, Last words
Source: All trivia: Trivia, More trivia, Afterthoughts, Last words
“How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!”
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Source: An Anthology
Source: An Anthology
“A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.”
“Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.”
“There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.”
Source: A chime of words: the letters of Logan Pearsall Smith
“We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.”
Source: Afterthoughts
Source: An Anthology
Source: An Anthology
“The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.”
“There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.”
Source: Afterthoughts
Source: Afterthoughts
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.”
“What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.”
“What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!”
Source: Afterthoughts
Source: An Anthology
“Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.”
“I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.”
“We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.”
“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”