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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.
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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... 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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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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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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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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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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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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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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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
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