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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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Illinois
Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
Sadness
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Blues
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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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One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
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Gossip is the social mosquito.
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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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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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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It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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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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Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
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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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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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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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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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Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
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It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.
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when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
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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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