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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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Disease Loving People Someone
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
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Book Three Way
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
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 would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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Doubt Gold Long Time
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men

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