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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

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
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
..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
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
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
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
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
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
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
…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 man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Effort Knowing Moving
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

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

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