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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
Author
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Truth
Changeless
Find
Disadvantaged
Many
Disadvantages
Always
Clarity
Intention
Least
Though
Left

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All persecution is a sign of fear for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
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A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
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When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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Truth is its own defense.
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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