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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

Barbara Mertz

I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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Ghost Reading Stories Stuff
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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Female Men Swooning
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
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Crisis Lying Men
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
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
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
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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Heart Husband Moral
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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Doubt Gold Long Time
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny

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