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Barbara Mertz

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
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Cat Treats Way
It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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Fighting Home Sorry
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
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
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
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
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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Favors Lap Slugs
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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

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