It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
BARBARA MERTZthere is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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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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I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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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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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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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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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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