It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
BARBARA MERTZNoble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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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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Money was the manure of politics.
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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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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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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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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 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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