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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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  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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  I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

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  It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.

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  I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.

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  Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.

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  The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody

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  You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.

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  No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

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  Superstition has its practical uses.

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  Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

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  Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

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  there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

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  I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.

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  Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

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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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  kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

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