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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.

Barbara Mertz

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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Bed Cat Silence
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
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
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
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
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
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
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
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice

When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.

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