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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.
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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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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 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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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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