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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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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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... 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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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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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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a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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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 isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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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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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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