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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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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!
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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