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Barbara Mertz

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Gentleman Men Pay
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
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
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 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 trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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Cat People Touching
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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Favors Lap Slugs
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Cat Likes Quality
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
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

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