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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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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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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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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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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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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.
Ouida
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
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There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
Ouida
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
Ouida
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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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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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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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida
Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
Ouida
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
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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.
Ouida
