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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Truth is its own defense.
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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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There is no thermometer for wants!
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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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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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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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