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• Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

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  Flower, Next, Sun

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.33, Ouida

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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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  Men, Blood, May

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.100, Ouida

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• Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

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  Littles, Fame, Notoriety

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

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  Witty, Thinking, Doe

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

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  Trust, Fate, Disillusion

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• For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog.

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  Dog, Gold, Bread

  Ouida (2017). “A Dog of Flanders”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.

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  Light, Sunrise, Brain

  Ouida (1874). “Folle-Farine”, p.196

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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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  Garden, Bears, Would Be

  Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

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• No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

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  Talking, World, Great Things

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.96, Ouida

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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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  Mother, Brother, Father

  Ouida (2016). “Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes”, p.15, Ouida

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• the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

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  Wall, Moving, Government

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• A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

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  Vices, New Life, Lessons

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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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  Age, Facts

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

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  Thinking, Giving, Want

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.

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  Men, Air, Soul

  Ouida (1890*). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash."”

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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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  Lying, Butterfly, Gay

  Ouida (2016). “Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes”, p.24, Ouida

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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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  Moving, Imagination, Culture

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.310, Ouida

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