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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!

Barbara Mertz

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
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
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
Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Distance Home Three
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
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
…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
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
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
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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Female Men Swooning
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

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