I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
BARBARA MERTZSpring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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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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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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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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Money was the manure of politics.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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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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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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