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Superstition has its practical uses.

Barbara Mertz

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
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
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
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
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
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
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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Fashion Helen Peculiar
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
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing

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