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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

Barbara Mertz

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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Answers Courses Superb
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
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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Favors Lap Slugs
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Bird Looks Writing
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
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
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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Christian Half Lasts
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Cat Treats Way
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching

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