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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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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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Truth is its own defense.
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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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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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