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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

Barbara Mertz

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
…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
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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Fighting Home Sorry
The only people who are not in awe of Emerson’s powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. ‘Proceed, my dear,’ I said apologetically.
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People Powerful Voice
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
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
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
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
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
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation

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