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To be in the right is often an expensive business.

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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
Expensive
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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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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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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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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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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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