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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
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it that others, like myself, will compromise and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.
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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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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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