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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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It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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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 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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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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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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Indifference is the invisible giant of the 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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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.
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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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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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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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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
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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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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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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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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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