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Margaret Deland Quotes: A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
         

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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Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.



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





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