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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

Barbara Mertz

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
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Crisis Lying Men
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Down And Lying Weakness
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
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 never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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Christian Half Lasts
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
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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Habit Latter Writing
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist

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