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…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.

Barbara Mertz

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
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
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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Fighting Home Sorry
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
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Cat Likes Quality
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
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
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
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
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
…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
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong

…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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…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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