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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

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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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Chicago
Illinois
Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
Blues
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Sadness
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... the song of the world is all of love.
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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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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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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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Pedestals are always lonely.
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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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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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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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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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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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Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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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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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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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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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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marriage is a great strain upon 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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Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
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