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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
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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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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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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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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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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
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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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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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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
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