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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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 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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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 a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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