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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!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
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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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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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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 nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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 takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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