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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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• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

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  Vices, Innocence, Kind

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.149, Ouida

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• It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

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  Happiness, Horse, Stupid

  Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

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• An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

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  Husband, Comfort, Easy

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.388, 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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• 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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  Christian, Gay, Religion

  "Views and Opinions".

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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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• Why is youth so short and age so long?

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  Long, Age, Youth

  Ouida (1896). “Pipistrello: And Other Stories”

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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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• There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

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  Beauty, Self, Half

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• Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.

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  Angel, Passion, Rose

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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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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• 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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• Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

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  Christianity, Formulas

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

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  Winning, Atheism, World

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• Fancy tortures more people than does reality

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  Reality, People, Doe

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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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• 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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• you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

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  Women, Suffering, Crafts

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

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  Envy, Emulation, Virtue

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• Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

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  Love, Men, Fire

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.69

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• Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

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  Sweet, Clerks, Littles

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.95, Ouida

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• Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

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  Names, Prison, Crime

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

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  Kind, Magician, Familiarity

  Ouida (1890*). “Pascarel. Princess Napraxine”

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• Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

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  Music, Sublime, Genius

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.319, Ouida

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