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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.
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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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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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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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
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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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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different justice and reparation sometimes demand it but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.
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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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