"Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves."
"Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it."
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Source: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.132, U of Nebraska Press
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