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Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
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
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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Heart Husband Moral
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Gentleman Men Pay
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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Christian Half Lasts
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist
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
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
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
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

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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