A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
BARBARA MERTZA man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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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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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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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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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Superstition has its practical uses.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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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