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Eden Phillpotts

Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in Mount Abu, India, was educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.

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Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

Found, Gentleman, Impress, Mistaken, Seek, Usually

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

Food, Hand, Heart, Mean, Woman

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

Fortune, Gift, Greatest Treasure, Happy Marriage, Marriage, Treasure

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

Bits, Expect, Fool, May, Sense

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Adversity, Badly, Done, Future, Hurt

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Endowment, Faith, Insanity, Mind, Part, Reason

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

Generally, Jealous, Life, Profit, Secret, Secrets

Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we can do is give you both. . . . The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Ideas, People, Things, Two, Wits

Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.

Beer, Drinking, Half, Harm

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

Book, Self, Word, Write, Writing

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Chance, Fool, Gives, Giving, Know