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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

Barbara Mertz

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
BARBARA MERTZ

Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Book Three Way
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
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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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Believe Children Stupid
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
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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Beautiful Hero Nice
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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Effort Knowing Moving
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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Disease Loving People Someone
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
BARBARA MERTZ

Church Joy Majesty

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

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