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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

Barbara Mertz

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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
Archaeologist
Author
Egyptologist
Novelist
Writer
Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
Opportunity
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Restored
Lecture
Lectures
Teaching
Humor

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love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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