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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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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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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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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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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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It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
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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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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
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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 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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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
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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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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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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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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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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
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