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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
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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Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
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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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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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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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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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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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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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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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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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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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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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Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
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you have not a boat of your own, that is just it that is what women always suffer from they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.
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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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