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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

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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
Beauty
Half
Born
Self
Axiom
Axioms
Evident
Married

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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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