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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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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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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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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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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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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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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
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The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
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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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... 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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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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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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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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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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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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