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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

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
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
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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Heart Husband Moral
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
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
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
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Arms Drug Government
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
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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Husband Independent Intelligent
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy

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