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.
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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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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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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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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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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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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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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There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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