Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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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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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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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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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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