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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

Myrtle Reed

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Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
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Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.
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Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
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I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.
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It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
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Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
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As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
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it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
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Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
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Pedestals are always lonely.
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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
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The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.
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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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