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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.
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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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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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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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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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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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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Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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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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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
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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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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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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
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