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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
Men
Life
Undignified
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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Truth is its own defense.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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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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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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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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Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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