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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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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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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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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 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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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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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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There is no thermometer for wants!
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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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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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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 a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
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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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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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Truth is its own defense.
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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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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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