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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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
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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
