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.
BARBARA MERTZIf someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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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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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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