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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
Archaeologist
Author
Egyptologist
Novelist
Writer
Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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Superstition
Superstitions

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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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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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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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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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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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 would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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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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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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