there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
BARBARA MERTZ..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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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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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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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Superstition has its practical uses.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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The 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.
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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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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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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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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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Money was the manure of politics.
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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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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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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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