Birth Quote by Margaret Deland

“In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.” quote by Margaret Deland — Download Open image

“In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.”

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Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

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To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

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