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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
Novelist
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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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Power
Emperor
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Bureaucracy
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Sweetness
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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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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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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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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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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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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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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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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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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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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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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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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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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
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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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It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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