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Phyllis Bottome - Old Wine (1925)

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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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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

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

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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked — past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing — into the want and emptiness within!

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Marriage!... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

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If one has a cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

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Phyllis Bottome

Born: May 31, 1884
Died: August 22, 1963 (aged 79)
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