Logan Pearsall Smith
"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."
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"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."
"إن ما يعجبني في الكاتب الجيد ليس ما يصرح"
Logan Pearsall Smith
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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
"يقولون إن الحياة هي الغاية، أما أنا فأُفضل القراءة."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
"كم من أحلام يقظتنا ستتحول إلى كوابيس مظلمة، لو كان هناك خطر من تحققها!"
Logan Pearsall Smith
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"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."
"يحتاج المرء العظيم إلى حكمة بالغة ليُسدي النصح بلباقة، لكن الأعظم منه من يتقبله بجمال نفس."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered."
"الشيوخ يدركون غاياتهم، والشباب حائرون يائسون."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
"إن حيوية أي حركة فنية وليدة تُقاس بمدى الغضب الذي تثيره."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast."
"نحتاج إلى صنفين من المعارف: صنف نبثه الشكوى، وآخر نتباهى أمامه."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."
"إن أردت أن تُرمى بالكذب، فاصدق القول دائمًا."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Every author however modest keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"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?"
Logan Pearsall Smith
"How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
Logan Pearsall Smith
"There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them."
Logan Pearsall Smith
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