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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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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The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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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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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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