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

Barbara Mertz

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
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
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Book Three Way
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
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
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
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
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Doors Mother Pain
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny

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