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If it's to be, it's up to me.

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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
Author
Literary Critic
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Inspirational

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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop you.
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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.
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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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We need new friends some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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