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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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Pittsburg
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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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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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!
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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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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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