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…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.

Barbara Mertz

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Down And Lying Weakness
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Effort Knowing Moving
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
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
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband

…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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…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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