Margaret Deland Quotes
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As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.
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Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament
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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
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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.
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One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!
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The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
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as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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Home is the best place to be sick in.
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... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?
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Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.
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we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.
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Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
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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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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
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There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
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A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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Convictions do not imply reasons.
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... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
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Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
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It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
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Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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