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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!
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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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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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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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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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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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