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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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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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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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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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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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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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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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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'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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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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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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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
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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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... 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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... 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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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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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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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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Real divorce takes place without a decree.
Margaret Deland
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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