Money was the manure of politics.
BARBARA MERTZNoble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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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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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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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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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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