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Gossip is the social mosquito.

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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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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
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A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.
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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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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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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
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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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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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Love and hate always remember it is only indifference that forgets.
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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 possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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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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Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.
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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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