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Convictions do not imply reasons.

Margaret Deland

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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
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Autobiographer
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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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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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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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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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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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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Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.
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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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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
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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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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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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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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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