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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
Barbara Mertz
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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
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Egyptologist
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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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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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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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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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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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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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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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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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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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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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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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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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 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 have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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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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