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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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Enemies are an indication of character.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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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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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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