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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Barbara Mertz

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
…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
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
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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Christian Half Lasts
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Doors Mother Pain
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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Astonishment Believe People
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
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
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
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
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
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny

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