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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Barbara Mertz

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
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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Ambition Cutting Dream
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
BARBARA MERTZ

Character Knowing Writing
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
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
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money 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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
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
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
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
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

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