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 MERTZI 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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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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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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…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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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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