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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

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

Giving Men People
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
BARBARA MERTZ

Answers Courses Superb
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
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
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
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
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

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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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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