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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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Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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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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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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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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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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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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when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned 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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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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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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The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.
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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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Marriage is the cold potato of love.
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As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
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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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when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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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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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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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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