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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

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
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
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Down And Lying Weakness
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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Beautiful Hero Nice
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
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
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appearance Demand Female
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
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

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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