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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Barbara Mertz

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
…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
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
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.
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Ambition Cutting Dream
..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
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
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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Habit Latter Writing
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Believe Children Stupid

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