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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

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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Bed Cat Silence
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Effort Knowing Moving

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

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