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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.
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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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 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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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