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Great men always have dogs.

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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
Dogs
Dog
Great
Always
Men

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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --Wanda
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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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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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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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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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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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for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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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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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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