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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.
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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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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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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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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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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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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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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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
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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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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
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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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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
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