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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

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  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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  Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.

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  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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  There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

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  I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)

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  Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

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  Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

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  Superstition has its practical uses.

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  The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

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  Money was the manure of politics.

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  There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

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  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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  If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.

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  But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

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  Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

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  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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