Margaret Deland Quotes - Page 4

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• Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

  Margaret Deland

  Grief, World, Pay

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• moral vanity is the snare of good people.

  Margaret Deland

  Vanity, People, Morality

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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

  Margaret Deland

  Stars, Wall, Men

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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.

  Margaret Deland

  Bombshells, Letters, Frail

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

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• Convictions do not imply reasons.

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  Reason, Conviction

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• Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

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  Common Sense, Dangerous, Conscience

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• A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

  Margaret Deland

  Positive, Flames, May

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.230, The Floating Press

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• ... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.

  Margaret Deland

  Beautiful, Dog, Faithful

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• nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

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  Adolescence, Conventional

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

  Margaret Deland

  Successful, Self, Cobwebs

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• ... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

  Margaret Deland

  Names, Evil, Moments

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• In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

  Margaret Deland

  Self, Connections, Modesty

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.236, The Floating Press

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