Ouida quotes

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. (Ouida)
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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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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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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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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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.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. (Ouida)
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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It is the trifles of life that are its bores, after all.
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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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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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