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What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Marie Corelli

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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
Novelist
Poet
Writer
London
England
Mary McKay
Mary Mackay
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Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
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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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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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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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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.
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What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
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Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!
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Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.
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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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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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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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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
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How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
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One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.
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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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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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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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