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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.

Barbara Mertz

It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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Fighting Home Sorry
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
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
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
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
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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Answers Courses Superb
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
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
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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Doubt Gold Long Time
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing

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