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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
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London
England
Mary McKay
Mary Mackay
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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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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
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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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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
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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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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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Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
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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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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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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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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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What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
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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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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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What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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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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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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