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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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
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Desolate
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The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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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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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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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 cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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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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Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
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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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[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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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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