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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

Barbara Mertz

When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Determination Littles May
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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Amusement Done Looks
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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Heart Husband Moral
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Believe Children Stupid

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

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