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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.

Barbara Mertz

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
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
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
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Arms Drug Government
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
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
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
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Bird Looks Writing
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
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
The only people who are not in awe of Emerson’s powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. ‘Proceed, my dear,’ I said apologetically.
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People Powerful Voice

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