Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
BARBARA MERTZI have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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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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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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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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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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