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

Barbara Mertz

I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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Ghost Reading Stories Stuff
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
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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Astonishment Believe People
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Done Kissing Mistake
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
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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Cat People Touching
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
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
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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Husband Independent Intelligent
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Crisis Lying Men
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty

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

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