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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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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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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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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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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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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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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 couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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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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... 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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There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
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When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
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