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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

Barbara Mertz

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
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.)
BARBARA MERTZ

Credit Men Thinking
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
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
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
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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
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
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
…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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Amusement Done Looks

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