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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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Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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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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The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
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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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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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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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Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
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when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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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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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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One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
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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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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
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