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> [It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/it-s-the-safety-valve-of-middle-life-and-the-solace-of-age/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

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## More by Mary Roberts Rinehart

> [Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/every-crucial-experience-can-be-regarded-either-as-a-setback-or-the/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

> [pretense is the oil that lubricates society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/pretense-is-the-oil-that-lubricates-society/)

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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...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/men-look-back-on-the-children-who-were-once-themselves-and-attempt-to/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

> [there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/there-comes-a-time-when-ambition-ceases-to-burn-or-romance-to-stir/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

> [To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/to-men-and-women-who-want-to-do-things-there-is-nothing-quite-so/)

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> [The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/the-stage-on-which-we-play-our-little-dramas-of-life-and-love-has-for/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

> [ \[On fishing:\] Greatest rest in the world for the brain. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/on-fishing-greatest-rest-in-the-world-for-the-brain/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

> [I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/i-suppose-there-is-something-in-all-of-us-that-harks-back-to-the-soil/)

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> [“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/the-old-vicious-cycle-of-empires-threatened-to-repeat-itself-the-old/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

> [We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/we-are-often-miserable-at-our-desk-or-typewriters-but-not-happy-away/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

> [Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/men-love-a-joke-on-the-other-fellow-but-your-really-humorous-woman/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

> [War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/war-is-a-thing-of-fearful-and-curious-anomalies-it-has-shown-that/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

> [the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/the-calm-of-a-place-like-bellwood-is-the-peace-of-death-without-the/)

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> [I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/i-never-saw-a-lawyer-yet-who-would-admit-he-was-making-money/)

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> [“Oh, stop talking," I cried, in a hunted tone. "I can't bear it. If you are going to arrest me, get it over." "I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/oh-stop-talking-i-cried-in-a-hunted-tone-i-can-t-bear-it-if-you-are/)

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