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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

Barbara Mertz

Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
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
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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
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
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
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
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth

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