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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
Activity
Blues
Sovereign
Remedy
Sadness

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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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It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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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've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!
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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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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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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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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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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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Pedestals are always lonely.
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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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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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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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Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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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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Silence always gives consent.
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