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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
Myrtle Reed
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Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
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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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Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
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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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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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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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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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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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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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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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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