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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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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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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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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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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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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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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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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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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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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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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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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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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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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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Truth is its own defense.
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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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