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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

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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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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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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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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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Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
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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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When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
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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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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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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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