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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

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
Self
Looks
Contented
Cat
Satisfied
Nothing

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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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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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