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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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it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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Convictions do not imply reasons.
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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.
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There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
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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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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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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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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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