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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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University Teacher
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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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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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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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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