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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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Business
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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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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