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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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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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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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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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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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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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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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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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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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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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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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There is no thermometer for wants!
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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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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A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
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