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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
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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 two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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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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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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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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There is no thermometer for wants!
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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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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I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
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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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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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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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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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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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