It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
BARBARA MERTZThe trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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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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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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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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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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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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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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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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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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The only people who are not in awe of Emerson’s powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. ‘Proceed, my dear,’ I said apologetically.
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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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