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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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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.
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