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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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Mary Rinehart
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.
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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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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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