Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
BARBARA MERTZLoving 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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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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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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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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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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