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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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If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
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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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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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It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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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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When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
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Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
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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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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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... the song of the world is all of love.
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When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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