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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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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... 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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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!
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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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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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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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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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the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
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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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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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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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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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