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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.
Marie Corelli
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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
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London
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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
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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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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
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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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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.
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What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
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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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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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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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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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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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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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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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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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I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.
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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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