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• Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.

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  Giving, Guests, Welcome

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)”, p.141

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• Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

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  Science, Genius, Fancy

  Ouida (1871). “Chandos: A Novel : in Two Volumes”, p.91

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• A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

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  Littles, Scandal, Tongue

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.218

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

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  Heart, People, Fame

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• Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

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  Children, Genius, Influence

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.15, Ouida

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• Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

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  World, Indifference, Invincible

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• The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

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  Strong, Joy, Suffering

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

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  Rights, Seeming

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• I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

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  Men, Rogues, Hundred

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.97

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• Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

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  Flower, Promise, Growth

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.6, 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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• 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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• Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

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  Trust, Fate, Disillusion

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