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She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course — but far worse for the Christian who does it — for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew — whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain — if he ever was one — a good Christian!
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It is a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
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Truth is no man's slave — but lies — what magnificent servants they make.
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To see a shadow and think it is a tree — that is a pity, but to see a tree and think it is a shadow can be fatal.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient — never.
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She was so sincere that she would think only one thought at a time; and her whole nature would be behind her thought.
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One pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled.
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A strip of pale daffodil, sharp as a razor blade, pried open the lid of the sky.
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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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Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
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The unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
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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 man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!
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Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside.
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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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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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The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.
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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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Luck enters into any contingency. You are a fool if you forget it—and a greater fool if you count upon it.
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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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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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When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Phyllis Bottome
Born:
May 31, 1884
Died:
August 22, 1963
(aged 79)
Bio:
Phyllis Forbes Dennis was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome.
Known for:
The Mortal Storm (1937)
Danger Signal (1939)
The Dark Tower (1916)
Old Wine (1925)
The Second Fiddle (1917)
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