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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

Barbara Mertz

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
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 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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Cat People Touching
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
BARBARA MERTZ

Character Knowing Writing
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Distance Home Three
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
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 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
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons

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