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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

Barbara Mertz

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
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Determination Littles May
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
…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
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
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
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
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
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

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