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• Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

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  Believe, Acceptance, Thinking

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.52, Northwestern University Press

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• When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

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  Lightning, Innocence, Sometimes

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.161, Northwestern University Press

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• To be in the right is often an expensive business.

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  Expensive

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• There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

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  Mistake, Taken, Learning

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

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  Practice, Ideas, Dangerous

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• A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

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  Hot, Red, Panic

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

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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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  Christian, Justice, Diversity

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.190, Northwestern University Press

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• Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

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  Children, Thinking, Law

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

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  Talking, Two, Making Love

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

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  Writing, Giving, Poet

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• There is no thermometer for wants!

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  Desire, Want, Thermometers

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.6, Northwestern University Press

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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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  Desire, Source, Fulfilled

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• death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

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  Thinking, Doe, Birth

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.189, Northwestern University Press

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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 force not magic in psychiatry.

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  Skills, Magic, Physicians

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

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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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  Were Not Meant To Be, Picnics, States

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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 increased it.

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  Angel, Men, Saint

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

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

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  Niceness, Pleasant

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• ... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

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  Men, Life Is, Made

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

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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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  Hate, Men, Asking

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

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  Hunters, Ears, Grows

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

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  Lying, Men, Slave

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• If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

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  Integrity, Character, Play

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

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  World, Way, Rich

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

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• to everything there is an end - except fear.

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  Fear, Ends

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

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• ... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

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  Nun, Has Beens

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

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