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Useless as a pulled tooth.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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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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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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