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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

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

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

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

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ... — 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

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge. — 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

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

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt. — 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

Faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show. — Margaret Deland