The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
BARBARA MERTZThe 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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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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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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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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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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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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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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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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