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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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