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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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