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Gossip is the social mosquito.

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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Gossip
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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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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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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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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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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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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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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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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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Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
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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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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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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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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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Silence always gives consent.
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