Ouida Quotes
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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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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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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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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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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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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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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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.