Ouida

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

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age is nothing but death that is conscious.

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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…

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The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on…

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Why is youth so short and age so long?

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Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the…

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Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion…

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There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

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Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish…

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

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“He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I—…

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The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important…

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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices…

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Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

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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…

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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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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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Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as…

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

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What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

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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…

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Love is cruel as the grave.

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It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

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For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and…

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