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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?
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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different justice and reparation sometimes demand it but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.
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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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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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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 isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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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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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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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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