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

Barbara Mertz

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)
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Husband Independent Intelligent
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Arrogance Men Surprise
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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Female Men Swooning
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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Ambition Cutting Dream
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
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
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
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
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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Disease Loving People Someone
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong

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

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