I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
BARBARA MERTZYou 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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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 had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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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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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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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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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