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Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
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
Courtesy
Honored
Seldom
Charity
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Poor
Intruders
Often
Guise
Delicacy
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