Money was the manure of politics.
BARBARA MERTZMarriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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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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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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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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