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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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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
Author
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Writer
Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Long
Painful
Things
Matters
Time
However
Behavior
Happen
Happens
Matter
Much
Behave

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