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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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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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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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