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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

Barbara Mertz

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Believe Children Stupid
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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Ambition Cutting Dream
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
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
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
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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Favors Lap Slugs
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
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
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 would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self

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