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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
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Pittsburg
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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Enemies are an indication of character.
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