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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Barbara Mertz

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
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
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
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
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
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Character Knowing Writing
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
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
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Determination Littles May

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