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Great men always have dogs.
Ouida
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Ouida
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 1
Died: 1908
Died: January 25
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Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
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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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Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows it can only poison if it be plucked.
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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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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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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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Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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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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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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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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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
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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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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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Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
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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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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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