Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland
Margaret Delandwas 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...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 February 1857
safety aprons strings
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
age quality relief
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 ...
law poor-eyesight spectacles
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
hero greatness people
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.
sex brain
Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!
teaching useless genius
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
two ems duty
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
evil goodness badness
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.
gossip amusement insult
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
gossip feelings faults
by some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed ...
grief pay world
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
doe habit reconcile
habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...
happiness secret facts
The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion ...
years habit break
the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.