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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
Author
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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Dislike
Liked
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Lying

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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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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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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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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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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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Truth is its own defense.
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Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
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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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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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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