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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 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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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There is no thermometer for wants!
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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
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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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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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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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A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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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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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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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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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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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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All persecution is a sign of fear for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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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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