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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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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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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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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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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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