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• ... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

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  People, Mind, Great Men

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• ... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves

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  People, Want, Chests

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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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• It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

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  Pain, Children, War

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.167, Northwestern University Press

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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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• 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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  Children, Memories, Born

  Phyllis Bottome (1954). “The Secret Stair”

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• ... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

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  Lying, Doe, Virtue

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

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