Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
BARBARA MERTZThe way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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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 have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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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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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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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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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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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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I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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