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Ouida
English
Novelist
About the author
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida,
English
Novelist
#Beauty
#Familiarity
#Ugliness
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Ouida,
English
Novelist
#Laws
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida,
English
Novelist
#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.
Ouida,
English
Novelist
#Work
#Mother
#Hard work
#Kiss
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida,
English
Novelist
#Hope
#Heart
#Man
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida,
English
Novelist
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Ouida,
English
Novelist
#Life
#HusbComfort
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Ouida,
English
Novelist
#Death
#Christianity
#Terror
#Gay
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Ouida,
English
Novelist
#Friends
#Goodbye