Margaret Deland - Around Old Chester (1915)

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As everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

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If Paul... had tar on the seat of his breeches, and sat down in a bushel of doubloons, not one of 'em would stick to him!

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

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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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It's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

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He was of that pleasant temperament which believes whatever it is comfortable to believe; he was always able to explain facts to suit his mental necessities.

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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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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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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.

Margaret Deland