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• Petty laws breed great crimes.

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  Law, Liberty, Libertarian

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.260, Ouida

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• A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

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  Running, Hands, Oil

  Ouida (2005). “Moths”, p.444, Broadview Press

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• Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

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  Selfish, People, Wish

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.408, Ouida

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• for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

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  Art, Sight, Poetry

  Ouida (2016). “Bimbi: Stories for Children”, p.55, Ouida

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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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  Friendship, Goodbye, Farewell

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• Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

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  Hope, Heart, Men

  Ouida (1889). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash"”

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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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  Father, Wish, Coward

  Ouida (1890*). “Wanda. Ariadne. The general's match-making”

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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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  Christian, Gay, Religion

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• A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Pockets

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.6, Ouida

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• Excess always carries it's own retributions.

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  Excess, Retribution, Carrie

  Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

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• There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

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  Heart, Sadness, Chords

  Ouida (1900). “Signa: A Story”

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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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  Sweet, Strong, Hands

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

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  Cutting, Knives, Blades

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

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  Charity, Delicacy, Courtesy

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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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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  Mother, Hard Work, Kissing

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.14, Ouida

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• Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

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  Joy, Religion, Action

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

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  Drawing, Rooms, Honest

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.106

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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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  Laughter, Hypocrite, Men

  Ouida (2005). “Moths”, p.257, Broadview Press

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• In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

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  Men, Religion, Earth

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Butterfly

  Ouida (2016). “Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes”, p.48, Ouida

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• Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?
  Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.
  You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

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  Beautiful, Song, Prayer

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• age is nothing but death that is conscious.

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  Age, Conscious

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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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• Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

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  Enemy, Atheism, Christianity

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Fancy tortures more people than does reality

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  Reality, People, Doe

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