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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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