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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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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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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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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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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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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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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