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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
Barbara Mertz
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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
Archaeologist
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Egyptologist
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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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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I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)
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love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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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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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Now, Mama, Papa, and sir, said Ramses, please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin-- Oh, good Gad, shrieked Inspector Cuff.
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
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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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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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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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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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That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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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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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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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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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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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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