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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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