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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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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.
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