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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
Magician
Ugliness
Cruel
Beauty
Kind
Familiarity
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Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.
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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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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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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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Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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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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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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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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Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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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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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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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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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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There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
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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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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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