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Superstition has its practical uses.

Barbara Mertz

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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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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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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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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 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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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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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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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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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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love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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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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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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