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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

Margaret Deland

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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
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University Teacher
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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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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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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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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