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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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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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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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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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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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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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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left 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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if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
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