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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
Ouida
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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
Ignorance
Peace
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World
Leaves
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We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.
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Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
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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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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
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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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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
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It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.
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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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It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
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Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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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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