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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

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
Counterfeit
Youth
Easier
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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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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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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...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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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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