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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
— Phyllis Bottome
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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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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Can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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The unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
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Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.
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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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Lots of men hate women now-a-days ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
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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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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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We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.
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It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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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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Our responsibility to ourselves comes first because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others! — Phyllis Bottome
The ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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It is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.
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Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
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Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
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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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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?
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To everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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With courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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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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Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.
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Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.
— Phyllis Bottome
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
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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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Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
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Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone ...
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A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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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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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.
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There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
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There is no thermometer for wants!
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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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When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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Hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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Truth is its own defense.
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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. — Phyllis Bottome
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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