Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
BARBARA MERTZSpring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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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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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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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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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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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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