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A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

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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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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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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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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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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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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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Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
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Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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Silence always gives consent.
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The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.
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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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Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
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Gossip is the social mosquito.
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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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Pedestals are always lonely.
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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