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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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It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
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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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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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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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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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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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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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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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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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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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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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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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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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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