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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

Phyllis Bottome

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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
Author
Novelist
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Sickness
Laughter
Health
Humor
Inspirational
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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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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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
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