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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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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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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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