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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.

Barbara Mertz

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
BARBARA MERTZ

Astonishment Believe People
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
BARBARA MERTZ

Answers Courses Superb
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men 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
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
BARBARA MERTZ

Husband Independent Intelligent
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).
BARBARA MERTZ

Doubt Gold Long Time
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Believe Children Stupid
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
BARBARA MERTZ

Bird Looks Writing
Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Done Kissing Mistake
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.

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