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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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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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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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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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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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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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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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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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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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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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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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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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