The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
BARBARA MERTZYour trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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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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Money was the manure of politics.
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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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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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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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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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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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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