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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

Barbara Mertz

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
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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Book Idea Needs
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Doors Mother Pain
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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Fashion Helen Peculiar
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
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
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
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

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

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