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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

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
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
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 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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
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
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Done Kissing Mistake
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
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
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
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

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