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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

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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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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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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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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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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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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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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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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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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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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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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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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
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