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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.
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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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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a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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