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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.
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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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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 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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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