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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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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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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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If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.
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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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... the song of the world is all of love.
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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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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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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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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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Love and hate always remember it is only indifference that forgets.
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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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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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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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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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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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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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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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