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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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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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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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it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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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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... 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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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
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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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By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.
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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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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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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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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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