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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
Poet
Short Story Writer
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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... 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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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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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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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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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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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
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There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love reason cannot weaken it hate cannot destroy it.
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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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Real divorce takes place without a decree.
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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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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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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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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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