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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.

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
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
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
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
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Crisis Lying Men
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
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.)
BARBARA MERTZ

Credit Men Thinking
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
Money was the manure of politics.
BARBARA MERTZ

Manure Money 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
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method

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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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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