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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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Mary Rinehart
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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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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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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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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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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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