Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
BARBARA MERTZMoney was the manure of politics.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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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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It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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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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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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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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