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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

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
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
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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Amusement Done Looks
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Distance Home Three
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
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
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
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
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband

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

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