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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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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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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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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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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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Great men always have dogs.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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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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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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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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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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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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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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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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