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It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
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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Death
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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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It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
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Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows it can only poison if it be plucked.
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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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A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
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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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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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The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --Wanda
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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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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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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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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.
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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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It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
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