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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --Wanda
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Ouida
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 1
Died: 1908
Died: January 25
Novelist
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Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
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Wanda
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The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
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Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
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You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.
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Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
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A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
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you have not a boat of your own, that is just it that is what women always suffer from they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.
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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
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Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
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A little scandal is an excellent thing nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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