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Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
Myrtle Reed
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Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
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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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When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
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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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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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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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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
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No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
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Love and hate always remember it is only indifference that forgets.
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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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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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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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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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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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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
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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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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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