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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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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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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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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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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Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
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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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Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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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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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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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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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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Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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Great men always have dogs.
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