Ouida Quotes

"A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run."
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"An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life."
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(Related: Life, HusbComfort)

"Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan."
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(Related: Death, Christianity, Gay, Terror)

"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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(Related: Friends, Goodbye)

"Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness."
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(Related: Beauty, Familiarity, Ugliness)

"Petty laws breed great crimes."
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(Related: Laws)

"To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery."
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(Related: Innocence, Vice)

"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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(Related: Work, Kiss, Mother, Hard work)