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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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Enemies are an indication of character.
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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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there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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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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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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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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