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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.

Barbara Mertz

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
BARBARA MERTZ

Giving Men People
The only people who are not in awe of Emerson’s powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. ‘Proceed, my dear,’ I said apologetically.
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People Powerful Voice
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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Credit Men Thinking
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Cat Treats Way
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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Ghost Reading Stories Stuff
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
BARBARA MERTZ

Favors Lap Slugs
Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Distance Home Three
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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Habit Latter Writing
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appearance Demand Female
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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Bed Cat Silence
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
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Arms Drug Government
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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Ignorance Maturity Profound
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
BARBARA MERTZ

Female Men Swooning

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