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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
Woman
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Anything
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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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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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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 lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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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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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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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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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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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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If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
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She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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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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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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