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Frances Parkinson Keyes
Age: 84 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 21
Died: 1970
Died: July 3
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A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.
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Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.
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The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.
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the only door into her bedroom led through the church.
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You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!
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Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.
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One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.
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Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
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A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.
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