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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

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
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
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
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
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
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.)
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Credit Men Thinking
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
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
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
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
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method

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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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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