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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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