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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

Barbara Mertz

When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Character Knowing Writing
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
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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Credit Men Thinking
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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Cat People Touching
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Determination Littles May
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
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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Cat Treats Way
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
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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Astonishment Believe People
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

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