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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.
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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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
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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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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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