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• pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Oil, Pretense

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.31, The Floating Press

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• It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

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  Trouble

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Great Mistake”, p.282, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Hard Work, Men, Play

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.30, The Floating Press

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• [On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

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  Fishing, Brain, World

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.15, Overamstel Uitgevers

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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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  Men, Class, Ego

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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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  Courage, Men, Coward

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.64, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

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  Men, House, Haunted Houses

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.35, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

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  Gratitude, Responsibility, Development

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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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  Boys, Men, Elderly

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.24, The Floating Press

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• Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

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  Sight, Gains, Infatuation

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “A Poor Wise Man”, p.265, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• ... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

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  Remember, One Love, Ifs

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “The Breaking Point”, p.311, The Floating Press

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• there is no truly honest autobiography.

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  Honest, Autobiography

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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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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  Men, Strain

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.221, Essential Library

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• Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

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  Love, Life, Romance

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• It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

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  Safety, Age, Middle

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.14, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.

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  Home, Thinking, Next Week

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

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  Typewriters, Miserable, Not Happy

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

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  Sacrifice, Great Love, Tragedy

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2010). “Dangerous Days”, p.443, The Floating Press

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• Old men make wars that young men may die.

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  War, Men, May

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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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  Heart, Ambition, Romance

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

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  Years, People, Tolerance

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Where There's a Will”, p.242, The Floating Press

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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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  Feet, Feelings, Everyday

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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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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  Children, Men, Thinking

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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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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  Christmas, Heart, Might

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• The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

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  Distance, Home, College

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