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It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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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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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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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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