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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

Margaret Deland

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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
Author
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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Mighty
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Law

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the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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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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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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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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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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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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