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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

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
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
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Book Three Way
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Cat Likes Quality
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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Fighting Home Sorry
…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
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
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
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
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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