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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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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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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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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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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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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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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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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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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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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 heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
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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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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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