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There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

Barbara Mertz

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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Bird Looks Writing
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
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
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
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
BARBARA MERTZ

Ambition Cutting Dream
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
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