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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Barbara Mertz

I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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Doubt Gold Long Time
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
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
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
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
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
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Cat Likes Quality
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching

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