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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.

Barbara Mertz

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
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
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
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
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
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
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
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
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
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

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.

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