If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
BARBARA MERTZthere is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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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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That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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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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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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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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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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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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Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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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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There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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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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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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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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His masculinity was only too apparent
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