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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

Barbara Mertz

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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English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
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
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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Habit Latter Writing
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
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 much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Arrogance Men Surprise
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Cat Likes Quality
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Cat Treats Way
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
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
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters

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