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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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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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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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