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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

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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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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Silence always gives consent.
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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
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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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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
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Gossip is the social mosquito.
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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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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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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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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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