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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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