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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.
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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It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
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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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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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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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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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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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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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There is no thermometer for wants!
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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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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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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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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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