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Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
Danger
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Logan Pearsall Smith
People
Aspirations
Will
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
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Fashion
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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Company
World
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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Body
Conscience
Years
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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Dying
Friends
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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People
Evil
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
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Friends
Old
Will
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.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Money
Work
Artists
Devil
Popular
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
People
Words
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
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God
Mammon