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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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The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
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it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
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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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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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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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Gossip is the social mosquito.
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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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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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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
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Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
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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 things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
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No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
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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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