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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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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Better
Always
Cows
Familiar
Seven
Rich
Poor

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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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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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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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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 ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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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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Truth is its own defense.
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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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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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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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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