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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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Life
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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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 have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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