Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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About Logan Pearsall Smith

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Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language...

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

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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Am I the person who used to wake in the middle of the night and laugh with the joy of living? Who worried about the existence of God, and danced with young ladies till long after daybreak? Who sang "Auld Lang Syne" and howled with sentiment, and more than once gazed at the full moon through a blur of great, romantic tears?

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

—Thomas Moore

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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

—Ray Bradbury in Dandelion Wine

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When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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If I had known when I was twenty-one that I should be as happy as I am now, I should have been sincerely shocked. They promised me wormwood and the funeral raven.

—Christopher Isherwood

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Youth has to do with spirit, not age. Men of seventy or sixty are often more youthful than the young. Theirs is the real youth.

—Henry Miller

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