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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.
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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The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
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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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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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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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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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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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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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