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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
Author
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
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University Teacher
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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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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... 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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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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Real divorce takes place without a decree.
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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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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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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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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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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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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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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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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
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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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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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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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