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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

I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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Answers Courses Superb
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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Female Men Swooning
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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Cat People Touching
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
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
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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Habit Latter Writing
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.
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Blame Cat Dog
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
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
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
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.
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Cat Treats Way
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People

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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