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Mary Roberts Rinehart Inspirational Quotes (58)

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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it that others, like myself, will compromise and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
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