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Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
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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Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
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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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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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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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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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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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Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows it can only poison if it be plucked.
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