Ouida Quotes

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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Friends, Again, Goodbye

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

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Beauty, Cruel, Ugliness

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.
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Great, Laws, Petty

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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Life, Husband, Comfort

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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Death, Gay, Made

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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Work, Good, Mother

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Seem, Innocence, Superior

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: January 7, 1839

Died: January 25, 1908

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