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No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.
Marie Corelli
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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
Novelist
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London
England
Mary McKay
Mary Mackay
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The Press nowadays is not a literary press classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.
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You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
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What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
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work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.
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Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!
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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.
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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?
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... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.
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Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!
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I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.
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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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There is no wealth but love.
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