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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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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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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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A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.
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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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Marriage is the cold potato of love.
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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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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
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when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
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One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
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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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Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
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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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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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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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