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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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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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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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Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
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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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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
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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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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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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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Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
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If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
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... the song of the world is all of love.
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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
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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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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
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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 possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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