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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled

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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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