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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
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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it that others, like myself, will compromise and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.
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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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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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