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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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I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
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What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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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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There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
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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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Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
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Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
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Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.
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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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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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Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
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The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.
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The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
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It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
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Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.
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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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Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
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I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
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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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It takes a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
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You have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.
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Born:
January 1, 1839
Died:
January 25, 1908
(aged 69)
Bio:
Ouida was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé.
Known for:
A Dog of Flanders (1872)
Under Two Flags (1867)
The Nurnberg stove (1892)
The Waters of Edera (1900)
Folle Farine
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