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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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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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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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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 money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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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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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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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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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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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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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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