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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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