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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

Barbara Mertz

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
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
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
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
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
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
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
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 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
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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Blame Cat Dog
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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Astonishment Believe People

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