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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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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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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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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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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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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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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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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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... Love never forgets or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
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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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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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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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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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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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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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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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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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