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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Barbara Mertz

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
..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
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
BARBARA MERTZ

Answers Courses Superb
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
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You
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
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
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

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