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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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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