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Youth without faith is a day without sun.

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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
Sun
Youth
Faith
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Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --Wanda
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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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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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 nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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