Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
BARBARA MERTZI do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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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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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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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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It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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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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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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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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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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