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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
Author
Egyptologist
Novelist
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.
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The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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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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..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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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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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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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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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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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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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family. Very boring, Emerson.
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