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Enemies are an indication of character.
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
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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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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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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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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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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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