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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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Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
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A little scandal is an excellent thing nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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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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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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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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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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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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[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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Great men have always had dogs.
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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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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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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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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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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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