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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

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Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child . . .

Source: My Story, Ch. 1, 1931.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart, (Aug 12 1876-1958), US novelist, playwright; She is best known for her mystery stories about Miss Pinkerton; originator of the phrase The butler did it.


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