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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

Barbara Mertz

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 men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
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
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
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
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
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
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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Astonishment Believe People
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
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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Christian Half Lasts
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Cat Treats Way
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring

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