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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
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People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
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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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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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