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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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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.
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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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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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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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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
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I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
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... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.
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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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