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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
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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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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Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
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... Love never forgets or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
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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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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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Real divorce takes place without a decree.
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... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
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