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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

Barbara Mertz

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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
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 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
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
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
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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Husband Independent Intelligent
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
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
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

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