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There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

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When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove...

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Your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another.... decency and integrity, courage and compassion, are always well worth while; they are not lost, but pass on down the generations; we are indeed the heirs of all the ages.

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Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

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My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership,... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.

Phyllis Bentley

Phyllis Bentley

Phyllis Bentley

Born: November 19, 1894

Died: June 27, 1977 (aged 82)

Bio: Phyllis Eleanor Bentley was an English novelist.

Known for:

The Brontës (1947)
The rise of Henry Morcar (1946)
Inheritance (1932)
Chain of Witnesses: The Cases of Miss Phipps
Ring in the new (1952)

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