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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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Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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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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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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The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.
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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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Pedestals are always lonely.
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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
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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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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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Love and hate always remember it is only indifference that forgets.
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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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