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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
— Margaret Deland
One must desire something to be alive
— Margaret Deland
It's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
— Margaret Deland
Moral vanity is the snare of good people.
— Margaret Deland
Perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
— Margaret Deland
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
— Margaret Deland
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
— Margaret Deland
Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...
— Margaret Deland
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
— Margaret Deland
Safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
— Margaret Deland
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
— Margaret Deland
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
— Margaret Deland
Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
— Margaret Deland
As everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
— Margaret Deland
Nothing may be more selfish than remorse ...
— Margaret Deland
Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!
— Margaret Deland
Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
— Margaret Deland
Silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?
— Margaret Deland
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.
— Margaret Deland
If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
— Margaret Deland
Weakness is a great bully without knowing it ...
— Margaret Deland
As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.
— Margaret Deland
War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.
— Margaret Deland
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
— Margaret Deland
I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
— Margaret Deland
Anger as well as love casts out fear ...
— Margaret Deland
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
— Margaret Deland
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 ...
— Margaret Deland
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
— Margaret Deland
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.
— Margaret Deland
When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.
— Margaret Deland
The attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
— Margaret Deland
You can't have genius without patience.
— Margaret Deland
As I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.
— Margaret Deland
The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion ...
— Margaret Deland
Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.
— Margaret Deland
If a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.
— Margaret Deland
Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
— Margaret Deland
When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?
— Margaret Deland
Real divorce takes place without a decree ...
— Margaret Deland
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
The profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
— Margaret Deland
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
— Margaret Deland
Home is the best place to be sick in.
— Margaret Deland
Convictions do not imply reasons.
— Margaret Deland
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
— Margaret Deland
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!
— Margaret Deland
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
— Margaret Deland
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
— Margaret Deland
There couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
— Margaret Deland
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
— Margaret Deland
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
— Margaret Deland
A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
— Margaret Deland
A manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.
— Margaret Deland
Conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
— Margaret Deland
Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.
— Margaret Deland
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
— Margaret Deland
Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
— Margaret Deland
Gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
— Margaret Deland
In a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.
— Margaret Deland
Nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
— Margaret Deland
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
— Margaret Deland
I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.
— Margaret Deland
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
— Margaret Deland
