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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
Novelist
Nurse
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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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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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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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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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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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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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