Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
BARBARA MERTZYou 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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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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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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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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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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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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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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His masculinity was only too apparent
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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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…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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There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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