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
expected hold holds pint
A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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You can't have genius without patience.
expected ifs pints
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
names desire satisfaction
One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
godly soul wicked
... 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.
arrogant conviction conceit
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
weakness ridiculous ends
Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!
listening fool embarrassment
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
stars wall men
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
bombshells letters frail
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
cake people cooking
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
hard-work quality interest
a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.
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Home is the best place to be sick in.