What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
From Logan Pearsall Smith
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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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