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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.
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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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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... 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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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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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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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
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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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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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