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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of 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
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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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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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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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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You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats. It is an engaging quality, Emerson. That depends, said Emerson darkly, on how he likes them.
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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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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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