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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 attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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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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... 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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Convictions do not imply reasons.
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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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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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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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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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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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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love reason cannot weaken it hate cannot destroy it.
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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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