Margaret Deland Short Quotes

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There's a pitch of virtue about him that is exhausting.

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

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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

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How long I've loved thee, and how well —
I dare not tell!

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When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

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Silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

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His past was no more to him than the eggshell is to the eagle.

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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.

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She knows as much about babies as a wild cat knows about tatting.

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The attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

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Arguing with Lucy was like trying to sew with no knot in your thread.

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The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

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She talked continually — and talking almost always smothers thinking.

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Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

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Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

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Did you ever notice, Ellen, that the truth always hurts people's feelings?

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A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

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He's always had something for nothing That is the one immorality that damns.

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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

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Mary, the Lord gives us our children; but Somebody Else gives us our in-laws!

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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

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A short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

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Some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

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Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

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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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There couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense isn't virtue; it's spiritual dissipation!

Margaret Deland