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[The remark] shocked poor Ellen into the realization that when children go wrong, everybody (except their parents) knows that it is their parents' fault.

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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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He tried, poor fellow, to assume his grand manner, but all in vain; he was like a drenched and dripping rooster, trying to crow in the rain.

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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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Poor Eleanor! Always doing the wrong thing, with greatness.

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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Thomas Browne

Margaret Deland

Margaret Deland
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Born: February 23, 1857
Died: January 13, 1945 (aged 87)
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