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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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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Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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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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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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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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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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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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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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