Barbara Mertz Quotes

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That's maturity — when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as that of your parents.

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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection...

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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

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In Jacqueline's experience, charming out-of-the-way restaurants were frequently attached to out-of-the-way motels.

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Stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

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No woman really wants a man to carry her off, she only wants him to want to do it.

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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

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There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

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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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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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When emotion supersedes reason... gullibility must follow.

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Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are — bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.

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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

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Marriage should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

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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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

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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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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.

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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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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

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Karl accepted, of course. Poor lonely chap, he would have accepted an invitation to a hanging if he could be with us.

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When one is striding bravely into the future, one cannot watch one's footing.

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