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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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
Familiarity
Magician
Ugliness
Cruel
Beauty
Kind
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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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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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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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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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Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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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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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
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A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
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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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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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