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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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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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[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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You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.
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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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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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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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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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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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Women hope that the dead love may revive but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
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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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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
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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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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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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
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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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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
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