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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.
Marie Corelli
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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
Novelist
Poet
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London
England
Mary McKay
Mary Mackay
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Actual
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Highest
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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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Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
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What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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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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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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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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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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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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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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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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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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How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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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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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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