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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
Undignified
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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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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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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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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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Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
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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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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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