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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
Archaeologist
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Egyptologist
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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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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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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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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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.
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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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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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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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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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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The only people who are not in awe of Emerson's powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. 'Proceed, my dear,' I said apologetically.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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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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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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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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