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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Barbara Mertz

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
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Believe Children Stupid
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Cat Likes Quality
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
BARBARA MERTZ

Brain Dulling Effects Love
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Doors Mother Pain
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
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
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
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women

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