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.
BARBARA MERTZIt is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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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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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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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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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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.
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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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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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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