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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Barbara Mertz

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
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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Heart Husband Moral
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Book Three Way
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
…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
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Doors Mother Pain
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’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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Ghost Reading Stories Stuff
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
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
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
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appearance Demand Female

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