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... the song of the world is all of love.

Myrtle Reed

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Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
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Chicago
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Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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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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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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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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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
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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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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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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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A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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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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The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
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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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As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
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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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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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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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Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
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Silence always gives consent.
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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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