"Phyllis Forbes Dennis" was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, "Phyllis Bottome" ( ).

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To be in the right is often an expensive business.

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

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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

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There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

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

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

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