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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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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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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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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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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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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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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 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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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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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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