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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.

Barbara Mertz

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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Blame Cat Dog
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
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
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
BARBARA MERTZ

Book Three Way
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
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Down And Lying Weakness
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
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
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
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
I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Effort Knowing Moving
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation

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