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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

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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
Hunters
Ears
Grow
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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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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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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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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... 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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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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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
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Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
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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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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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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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