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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.
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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... Love never forgets or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
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faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.
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I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
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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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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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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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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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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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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different justice and reparation sometimes demand it but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.
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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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