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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Ivory Tower, Towers, Gutters
Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Logan Pearsall Smith
People, World, Charming
Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Vanity, Gossip, Behind My Back
Logan Pearsall Smith, Edwin Tribble (1984). “A chime of words: the letters of Logan Pearsall Smith”

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