To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
BARBARA MERTZI 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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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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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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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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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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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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Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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