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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
Author
Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Inspirational

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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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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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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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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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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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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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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