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

Barbara Mertz

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
I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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Ghost Reading Stories Stuff
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
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 only people who are not in awe of Emerson’s powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. ‘Proceed, my dear,’ I said apologetically.
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People Powerful Voice
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
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
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
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
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons

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