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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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Convictions do not imply reasons.
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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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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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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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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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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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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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it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous 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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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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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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... 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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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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There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love reason cannot weaken it hate cannot destroy it.
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