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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Myrtle Reed

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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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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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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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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