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There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
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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Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows it can only poison if it be plucked.
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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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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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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
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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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Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
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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 always have dogs.
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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
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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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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
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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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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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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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Great men have always had dogs.
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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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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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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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