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

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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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If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
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when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
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When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
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It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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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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All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
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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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