The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
BARBARA MERTZThe only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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Money was the manure of politics.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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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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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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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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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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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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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 sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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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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