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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Barbara Mertz

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
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
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
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
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
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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Bird Looks Writing
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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Heart Husband Moral
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
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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English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation

Love has a very dulling effect on the brain

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