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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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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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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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