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There is no wealth but love.

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
Wealth
Love

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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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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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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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Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.
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the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!
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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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the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.
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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
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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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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
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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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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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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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