Maxioms by Logan Pearsall Smith
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough read more
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his read more
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!