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Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

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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Art

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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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It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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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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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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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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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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Great men have always had dogs.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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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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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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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
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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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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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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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