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the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
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
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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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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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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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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
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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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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
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Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
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faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.
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