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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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
England
Mary McKay
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Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
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How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
Marie Corelli
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
Marie Corelli
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?
Marie Corelli
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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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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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.
Marie Corelli
What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
Marie Corelli
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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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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There is no wealth but love.
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There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
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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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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!
Marie Corelli
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.
Marie Corelli
... 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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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.
Marie Corelli
And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
Marie Corelli
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
Marie Corelli
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
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