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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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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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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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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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There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, — no doubt we are, — but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
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It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
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War is wicked, because it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.
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He's always had something for nothing That is the one immorality that damns.
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We middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.
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Did you ever notice, Ellen, that the truth always hurts people's feelings?
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There must be reserves — except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.
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Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
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There's a pitch of virtue about him that is exhausting.
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If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.
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Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament.
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The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
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Mary, the Lord gives us our children; but Somebody Else gives us our in-laws!
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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Silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.
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Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, — coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, — but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!
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Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
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A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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His past was no more to him than the eggshell is to the eagle.
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Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!
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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
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When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
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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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