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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

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
Blues
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Sadness
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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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Marriage is the cold potato of love.
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it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
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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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Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.
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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.
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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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Love and hate always remember it is only indifference that forgets.
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The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
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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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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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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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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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Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
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