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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

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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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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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 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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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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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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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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It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
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When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
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Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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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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Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
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Silence always gives consent.
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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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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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when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
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Marriage is the cold potato of 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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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
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