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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

Barbara Mertz

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
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
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
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
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Down And Lying Weakness
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
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
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
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
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
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired

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