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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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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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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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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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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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