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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.

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
Moral
Convenience
Comes
Cowardice
Nothing
Depressing
Self
Contemplation
World
Constant
Personal
Greatest
Opinion
Consulting

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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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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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Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
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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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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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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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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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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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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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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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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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