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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
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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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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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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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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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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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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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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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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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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Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
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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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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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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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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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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
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