Myrtle Reed Quotes

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Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

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A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

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When one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

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I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

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There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

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It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

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Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

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It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

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Sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

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Three things I have longed to see... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

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When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

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I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

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Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

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Judging by his voice and his industry, he is something more than the summary of a diversified ancestry. He seems to be a dog of parts and distinction.

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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

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Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

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The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

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No matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

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Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

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No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

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Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

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May our house always be too small to hold all our friends.

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At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

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There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

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It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house — always go to theirs.

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A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

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The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

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It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

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When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

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Forgiving all things, dreaming all things, hoping all things with the boundless faith of maternity, she loved him, through the child that he was, for the man that he might be — loved him, through the man that he was, for the child that he had been.

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