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.
BARBARA MERTZMany persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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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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The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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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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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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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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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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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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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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Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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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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His masculinity was only too apparent
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