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

Barbara Mertz

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
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
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
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
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
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 easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
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
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
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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Husband Independent Intelligent
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

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