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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense isn't virtue; it's spiritual dissipation!
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One must desire something, to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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A pint can't hold a quart. If it holds a pint, it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
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She felt, as mothers have been apt to feel since sons began to choose wives — that her son's choice was a repudiation of the influences which had surrounded him ever since he was born!
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To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
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When personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.
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As I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; — unless it is the badness of the Good.
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Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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His truthfulness, which ignored the courteous deceits of social life, was a kind of impropriety.
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She empties her soul of its emotions just as a boy pulls his pocket wrong side out to show you that there's nothing in it.
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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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The blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
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When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.
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A mother, she's always got love enough to go round, somehow. I wish you could say the same of shoes.
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You see so much of the sin of human nature that you get to thinking human nature has got to sin. You are mistaken, sir; it has got to be decent.
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Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.
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Gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
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The profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
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He had been up until three with an old woman who thought she was sick, and he had been routed out of bed again at five because she told her family that she was going to die. William King was not given to sarcasm, but he longed to say to the waiting relatives, 'There is no hope! — she'll live.'
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A short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!
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A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
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Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
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Is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, — and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?
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The attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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Born:
February 23, 1857
Died:
January 13, 1945
(aged 87)
Bio:
Margaret Deland was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement.
Known for:
The Iron Woman (1911)
The Awakening of Helena Richie (1906)
Old Chester Tales (1898)
John Ward, preacher (1888)
Around Old Chester (1915)
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