Phyllis Bottome

Truth is its own defense.

— Phyllis Bottome

There is no thermometer for wants!

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Feelings change facts.

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It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

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To be in the right is often an expensive business.

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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

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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…

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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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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one…

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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…

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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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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must…

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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…

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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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Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of…

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This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even…

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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,…

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... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it.…

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... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't…

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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…

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It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken…

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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does.…

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“to be a Jew is to belong to an old harmless race that has lived in every country in the world; and…

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In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a…

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all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do…

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Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

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... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

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No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

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When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

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Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

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

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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

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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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