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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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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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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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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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One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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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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Pedestals are always lonely.
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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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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 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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Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
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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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