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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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The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us - and to which we have no right.
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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.
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Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.
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Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.
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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness — that of understanding.
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As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
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Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.
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All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
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The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.
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When you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will — before by faith, and afterward by memory.
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The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
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Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.
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Born:
September 27, 1874
Died:
August 17, 1911
(aged 36)
Bio:
Myrtle Reed was an American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist. She wrote a number of bestsellers and even published a series of cookbooks under the pseudonym Olive Green.
Known for:
Lavender and Old Lace (1902)
The spinster book (1901)
Old Rose and Silver (1909)
A Spinner in the Sun (1906)
The master's violin (1904)
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