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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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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Beauty
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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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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.
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Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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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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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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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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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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Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
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We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.
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