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There is no thermometer for wants!
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 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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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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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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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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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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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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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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Truth is its own defense.
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