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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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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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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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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 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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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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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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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
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All persecution is a sign of fear for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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