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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes: When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
         

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.


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



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



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Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.



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