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Truth is its own defense.

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

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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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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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Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
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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 is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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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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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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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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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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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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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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