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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
Phyllis Bottome
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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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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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A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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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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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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