"It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're……" — Myrtle Reed
"It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things."
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- Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. — Raymond Holliwell
- It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I… — Haruki Murakami
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12 Quotes by Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I've always thought my flowers had souls.
- If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to…
- May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
- Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
- Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest,…
- The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline…
- The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon…
- Somewhere on this great world the sun is always shining, and it will sometimes shine on you.
- Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does…
- When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
- Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
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