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it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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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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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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The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
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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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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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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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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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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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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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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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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
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