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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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