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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

Barbara Mertz

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
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
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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Answers Courses Superb
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appearance Demand Female
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
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.)
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Credit Men Thinking
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
…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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Amusement Done Looks

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