Quote #5
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
More from Logan Pearsall Smith
- What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
- To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and k…
- Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
- How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
- The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
- There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.