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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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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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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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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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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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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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Truth is its own defense.
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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
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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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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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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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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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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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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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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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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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