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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.

Barbara Mertz

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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Ignorance Maturity Profound
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Gentleman Men Pay
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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Beautiful Hero Nice
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
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
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
BARBARA MERTZ

Answers Courses Superb
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
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching

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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