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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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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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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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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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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
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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 money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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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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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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