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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
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Inspirational

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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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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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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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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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