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1839–1908 England
Ouida (January 7, 1839 – January 25, 1908) was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée).
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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.
It is the trifles of life that are its bores, after all.
Under Two Flags (1867)
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
A Village Commune (1881)
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874)
What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874)
When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874)
Socialism, which has the future of the world in its hands, will probably be unable to abolish war, and will certaintly not care for beauty or seek to preserve it. The reconstruction of society which Socialism contemplates will not be a state of things in which the interests of either nature or art will be cherished.
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