Myrtle Reed
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"Myrtle Reed" was an American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist, the daughter of author Elizabeth Armstrong Reed and the preacher Hiram von Reed. She wrote a number of bestsellers and even published a series of cookbooks under the pseudonym "Olive Green".

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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.