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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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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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There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
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Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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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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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
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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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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
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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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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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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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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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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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