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Money was the manure of politics.

Barbara Mertz

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
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Gentleman Men Pay
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
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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
I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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Credit Men Thinking
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
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
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
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
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing

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