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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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Nun
Woman
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Anything

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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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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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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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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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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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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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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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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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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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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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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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