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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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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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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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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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