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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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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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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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Conflict is the very essence 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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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 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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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