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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.

Barbara Mertz

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
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
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
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
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics

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