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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
Beauty
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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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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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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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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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