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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
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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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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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It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
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It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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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 pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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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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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
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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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Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.
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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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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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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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