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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Margaret Deland

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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
Author
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Truth
Every
Heresy
Shocking
Begins

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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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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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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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Convictions do not imply reasons.
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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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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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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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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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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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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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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Real divorce takes place without a decree.
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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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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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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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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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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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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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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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