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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Barbara Mertz

Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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Disease Loving People Someone
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
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
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband

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