Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
BARBARA MERTZLove has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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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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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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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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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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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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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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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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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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There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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