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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.

Barbara Mertz

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
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
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
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
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
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
BARBARA MERTZ

Cold Girl Manipulation
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Crisis Lying Men
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation

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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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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