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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.
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 working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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