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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

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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Female Men Swooning
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
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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Ignorance Maturity Profound
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

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

English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
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
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men

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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