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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

Barbara Mertz

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Bird Looks Writing
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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Heart Husband Moral
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
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
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
..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
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
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
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
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy

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