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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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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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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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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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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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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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