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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
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If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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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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