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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
Margaret Deland
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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
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There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love reason cannot weaken it hate cannot destroy it.
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... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.
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conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
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