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Marjorie Bowen

(1885–1952) Short Story Writer

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Marjorie Bowen was a short story writer.

Quick Facts About Marjorie Bowen

Born: November 1, 1885
Died: December 23, 1952
Profession: Short Story Writer

About Marjorie Bowen

[Wikidata] British writer (1885–1952)... | [Wikipedia] Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long, who used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, Joseph Shearing, Robert Paye, John Winch, and Margaret Campbell or Mrs. Vere Campbell, was a British author who wrote historical romances and supernatural horror stories, as well as works of popular history and b

Quotes by Marjorie Bowen

“I doubt not that some shall think this woman too slight a thing to be written of and set among the remembrances…

Forgiveness

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It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.

Difficult

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Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

Bigger

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“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return”

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I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my…

Death

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“mouth and the weight of dust heavy in his hand.”

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What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

Leader

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“Yet this little creature, of so mean an origin that she could not write her name, shone with an amiable lustre amid…

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Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?

Doe

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“He who don’t like me greasy shan’t have me nice.”

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Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

Flattered

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