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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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Nurse
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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Society
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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 was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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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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