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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
Contented
Cat
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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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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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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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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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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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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.
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Now, Mama, Papa, and sir, said Ramses, please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin-- Oh, good Gad, shrieked Inspector Cuff.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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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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