Myrtle Reed - The spinster book (1901)

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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness — that of understanding.

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A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

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

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

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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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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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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

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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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A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

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After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

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Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

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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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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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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

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