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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
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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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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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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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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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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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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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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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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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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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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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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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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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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