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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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Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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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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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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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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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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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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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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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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