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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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Emperor
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Clerks
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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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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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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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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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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Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
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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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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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