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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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 was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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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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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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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!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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