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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
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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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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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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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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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