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A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.
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Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
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Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
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For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.
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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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There isn't a new sorrow in the world — they're all old ones — but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
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The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.
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I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield — and the emotions of a rabbit.
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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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It always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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A man would need to be a mental kangaroo in order to keep up with her.
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There is always one way to make anybody do anything — the trouble is to find it.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Myrtle Reed
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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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