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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.

Barbara Mertz

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
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
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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Ambition Cutting Dream
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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Astonishment Believe People
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
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
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Determination Littles May
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
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
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race

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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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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