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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

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
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
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Cat Likes Quality
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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Doubt Gold Long Time
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
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
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
I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Effort Knowing Moving
…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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Amusement Done Looks
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Believe Children Stupid
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor

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