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Margaret Deland

Margaret Deland (née Margaretta Wade Campbell) (February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement.

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a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

Experience, Greatness, Hero, Moment, People

there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!

Concealed, Grace, Knows, Lies, Lying, Silence

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

Army, Looks, Arrogant, Nobody, Somebody, Down

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

Beautiful, Dog, Faithful, Imperfect

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

Frame, Gambles, Letters, Mind, Reader, Risky

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.

People, Arrogance, Doubt, Thing, Interests

. . . perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Arrogant, Conceit, Conviction, Emancipation

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

Amusement, Gossip, Insult

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

Cutting, Jokes, Same, Taste, Unhappiness

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.

Apt, Fear, Liar, Liars, Names

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Temptation, Virtue

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

Responsibility, People, Criminals, Sense, Notice

Home is the best place to be sick in.

Home, Illness, Place, Sick

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

Lies, Lying, Nourished, Unless, War

. . . some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

Memories, Floating, Wells, Memory, Worth, Recording

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.

Anxiety, Life, Loss, Responsibility, Table

. . . 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.

Names, Evil, Moments, Becomes, Individual, Situation

. . . is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

Fall, Dust, Iron, Falls, Brass

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Adolescence, Conventional, Nothing

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

Anger, Casts, Love, Wells

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