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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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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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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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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
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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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It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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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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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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The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
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Pedestals are always lonely.
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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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when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
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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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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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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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Silence always gives consent.
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