If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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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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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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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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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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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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…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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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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