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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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Journalist
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Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
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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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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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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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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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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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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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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
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Gossip is the social mosquito.
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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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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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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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Love and hate always remember it is only indifference that forgets.
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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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But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.
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I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
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