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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.
Margaret Deland
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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
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Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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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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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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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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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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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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