Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
BARBARA MERTZI do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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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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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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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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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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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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There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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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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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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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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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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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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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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