"Men... look back on the children who were……" — Mary Roberts Rinehart
"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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18 Quotes by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart has 18 quotes on this site.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and…
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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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War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried…
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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…
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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
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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…
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Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends…
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You…
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It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
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