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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

Barbara Mertz

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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
Archaeologist
Author
Egyptologist
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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Heart
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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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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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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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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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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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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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.
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