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for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
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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Sounds
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Gift
Others
Sight
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Poetry
Hear
Sound
Sights
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Great men have always had dogs.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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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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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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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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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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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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It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
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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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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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