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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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