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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

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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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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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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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Great men always have dogs.
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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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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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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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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Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
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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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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
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for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
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