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Barbara Mertz

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
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
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
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
…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
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
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
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist
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
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
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
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
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

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

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