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.
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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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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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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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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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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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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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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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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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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