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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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
Girdles
Lies
Woodland
City
Brussels
Cities
Moss
Within
Rests
Lying
Butterfly
Upon
Bright
Littles
Girdle
Little
Gay
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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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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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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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Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows it can only poison if it be plucked.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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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 world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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