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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

Barbara Mertz

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
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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Astonishment Believe 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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Favors Lap Slugs
It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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Fighting Home Sorry
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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Ignorance Maturity Profound
I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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Credit Men Thinking
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
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
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
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
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
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy

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