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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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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