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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

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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
Nun
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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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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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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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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Truth is its own defense.
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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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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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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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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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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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