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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Barbara Mertz

Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
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
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
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
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 have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Arrogance Men Surprise
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
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
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
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
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring

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