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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
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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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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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It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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