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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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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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