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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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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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Blame Cat Dog
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
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
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
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
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking 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
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
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self

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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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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