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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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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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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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There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
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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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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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Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
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There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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