The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
BARBARA MERTZSpring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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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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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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