I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
BARBARA MERTZThat’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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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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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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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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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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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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 sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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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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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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