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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 — Nazis and Communists. How do we know that they are not two ways of avoiding the same thing?

— Phyllis Bottome The Mortal Storm (1938)

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It is true that her heart is sick, but where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

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

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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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It is a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

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