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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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Ouida
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 1
Died: 1908
Died: January 25
Novelist
Writer
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
Men
Wrings
Flatters
Throats
Unwilling
Applause
Throat

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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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