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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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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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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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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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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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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
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So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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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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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
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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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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding 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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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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