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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
Never
World
Leaves
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Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows it can only poison if it be plucked.
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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
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It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
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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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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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Women hope that the dead love may revive but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
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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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Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
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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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Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
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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 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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It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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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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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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