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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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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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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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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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Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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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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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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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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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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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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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
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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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It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
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Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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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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