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Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

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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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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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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
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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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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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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
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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 is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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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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Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
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Gossip is the social mosquito.
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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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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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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 one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
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A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
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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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Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
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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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