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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

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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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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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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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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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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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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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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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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