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Truth is its own defense.

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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
Author
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Defense
Truth

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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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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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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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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 woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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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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