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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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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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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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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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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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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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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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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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Marriage is the cold potato of love.
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It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
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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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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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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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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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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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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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