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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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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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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Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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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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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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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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