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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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Silence always gives consent.
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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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... the song of the world is all of love.
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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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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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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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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.
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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
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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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