It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
BARBARA MERTZThe approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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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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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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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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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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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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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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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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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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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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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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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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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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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
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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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Superstition has its practical uses.
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