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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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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 you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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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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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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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
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It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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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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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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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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