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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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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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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Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
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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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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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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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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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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
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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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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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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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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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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 invincible grant of the world.
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Great men have always had dogs.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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