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title: "2 Pocket Mirror Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“Every man carries within him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. A parlor game for a wet afternoon – imaging the mirrors of one’s friends. A has a huge pier glass,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-h-auden-2/every-man-carries-within-him-through-life-a-mirror-as-unique-and/)

[W.H. Auden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-h-auden-2/)

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> [I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-altenberg/i-never-dreamed-of-being-shakespeare-or-goethe-and-i-never-expected/)

[Peter Altenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-altenberg/)

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