Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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I can't forgive my friends for dying. I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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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More quotations tagged with “conscience”

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

—Lillian Hellman

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

—Joseph Conrad

The conscience of a people is their power.

Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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