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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

Barbara Mertz

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
BARBARA MERTZ

Blame Cat Dog
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
BARBARA MERTZ

Kissing Mistake Someone
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).
BARBARA MERTZ

Doubt Gold Long Time
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

Cat Treats Way
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
BARBARA MERTZ

Giving Men People
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
BARBARA MERTZ

Funny Want Women
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
BARBARA MERTZ

Gentleman Men Pay
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
BARBARA MERTZ

Cold Girl Manipulation
Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
BARBARA MERTZ

Done Kissing Mistake
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Book Three Way
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
BARBARA MERTZ

Dust Instinct Scholarly
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
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

Astonishment Believe People

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

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