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Barbara Mertz

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
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
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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Disease Loving People Someone
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
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
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Book Three Way
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
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
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appearance Demand Female
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
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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Female Men Swooning
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
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
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
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
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
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
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
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
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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Bed Cat Silence
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

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