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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Barbara Mertz

Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Arrogance Men Surprise
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
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
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
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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Cat People Touching
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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Ghost Reading Stories Stuff

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

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