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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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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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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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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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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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