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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Barbara Mertz

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
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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Amusement Done Looks
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Believe Children Stupid
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Doors Mother Pain
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
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Distance Home Three
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
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Crisis Lying Men
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

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