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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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Chicago
Illinois
Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
Sadness
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Blues
Sovereign
Remedy

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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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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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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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Silence always gives consent.
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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.
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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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It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
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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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Gossip is the social mosquito.
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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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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
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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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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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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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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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Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
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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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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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