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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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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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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 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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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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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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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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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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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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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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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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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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