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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.

Barbara Mertz

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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Ignorance Maturity Profound
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
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
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
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
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
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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Beautiful Hero Nice
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
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
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 not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appearance Demand Female
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
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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Fashion Helen Peculiar
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
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
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
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
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
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
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor

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