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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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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Disillusion
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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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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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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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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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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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Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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