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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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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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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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If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.
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But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.
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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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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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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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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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when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
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When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.
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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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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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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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