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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

Barbara Mertz

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
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
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
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
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 had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Effort Knowing Moving
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Disease Loving People Someone
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone

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