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Mrs. Clapp was some distance away, Jeremiah’s trophy laid across one knee, stroking the cat’s head and telling him what a brave, smart boy he was. Jeremiah accepted this praise complacently, with a feline’s estimate of his own worth.

— Andre Norton Here Abide Monsters (1973)

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A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.

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