Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
BARBARA MERTZCats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
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There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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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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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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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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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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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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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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