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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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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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To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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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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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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People have a right to be shocked the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
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