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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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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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As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
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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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Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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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 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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Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
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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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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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Marriage is the cold potato of love.
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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
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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 the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
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I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.
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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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... the song of the world is all of love.
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