Money was the manure of politics.
BARBARA MERTZGiving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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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.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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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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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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