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

Barbara Mertz

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
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
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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Husband Independent Intelligent
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
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Arms Drug Government
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Gentleman Men Pay
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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Favors Lap Slugs
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
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
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

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