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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

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
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
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
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
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Cat Treats Way
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Down And Lying Weakness
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.
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Effort Knowing Moving
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs

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