Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
BARBARA MERTZkissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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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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Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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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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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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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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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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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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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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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.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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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.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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