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The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

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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
Food
Grows
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Body
Soul
Work
Growth
Mind
Joy

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it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
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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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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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Pedestals are always lonely.
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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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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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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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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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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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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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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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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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Love and hate always remember it is only indifference that forgets.
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Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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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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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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Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
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... the song of the world is all of love.
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