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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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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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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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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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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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when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
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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 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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When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
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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 get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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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 you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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