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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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