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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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Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
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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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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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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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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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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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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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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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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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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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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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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Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
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Marriage is the cold potato of love.
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It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
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