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

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  Support, Pet, Degrade

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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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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  Cows, Rich, Seven

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.150, Northwestern University Press

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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 others!

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  Responsibility, Firsts, Oneself

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• No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

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  Exercise, Excuse You, Tolerance

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.69, Northwestern University Press

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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 amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

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  Responsibility, Self, Discipline

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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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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  Thinking, Bird, Creative

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

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  Unfortunate Things, Rewards, Appetite

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

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  Hippopotamus

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.86, Northwestern University Press

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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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  Running, Heart, Men

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• When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

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  Feelings, Wells, Persons

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.41, Northwestern University Press

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• We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

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  Evil, Good And Evil

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

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  Doctors, Dying, Patient

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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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  Time, Littles, Ends

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

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  Anger, Long, Should

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• Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

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  Long, Matter, Painful

  Phyllis Bottome (1921). “The Crystal Heart”

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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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  Use, May, Changed

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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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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  Heart, People, Cleaning

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.190, Northwestern University Press

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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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  Character, Men, Wife

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

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  Courage, Safe, Enough

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.140, Northwestern University Press

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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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  Eye, Artist, Temptation

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

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  Spring, Doctors, Mind

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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, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

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  Struggle, Wish, Helping

  Phyllis Bottome (1930). “Tatter'd Loving”

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• What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

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  Children, Eye, Eyes Of A Child

  Phyllis Bottome (1917). “The Derelict: And Also The Liquer Glass, Mademoiselle L'Anglaise, The Awkward Turn, The Syren's Isle, Ironstone, The Pace, Brother Leo”

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• Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

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  Heart, Dry, Sometimes

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• hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

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  Hurt, Vanity, Mortals

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