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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
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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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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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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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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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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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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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it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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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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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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Truth is its own defense.
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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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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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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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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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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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Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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