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Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.
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
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Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
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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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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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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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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
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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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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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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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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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Great men have always had dogs.
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Women hope that the dead love may revive but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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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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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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