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Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.

Barbara Mertz

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Bird Looks Writing
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Gentleman Men Pay
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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Blame Cat Dog
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

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.

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Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.

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