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• Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

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  Laughter, Hypocrite, Men

  Ouida (2005). “Moths”, p.257, Broadview Press

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

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  Hope, Heart, Men

  Ouida (1889). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash"”

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• Excess always carries it's own retributions.

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  Excess, Retribution, Carrie

  Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

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• In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

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  Men, Religion, Earth

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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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 honored.

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  Charity, Delicacy, Courtesy

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

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  Christianity, Formulas

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

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  Winning, Atheism, World

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• Fancy tortures more people than does reality

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  Reality, People, Doe

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• Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

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  Sweet, Strong, Hands

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

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  Joy, Religion, Action

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

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  Self, Common, Mets

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

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  Coward, Doe, Care

  "Wanda".

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• you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

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  Women, Suffering, Crafts

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

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  Giants, World, Indifference

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• Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

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  Sweet, Clerks, Littles

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.95, Ouida

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• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

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  Vices, Innocence, Kind

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.149, Ouida

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• You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.

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  Israel, Gold, Ark

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• Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

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  Life, Echoes, World

  Ouida (1889). “Chandos. Randolph Gordon. Slander and sillery. Blue and yellow. Belles and blackcock. A line in the "Daily"”

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• An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

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  Husband, Comfort, Easy

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.388, Ouida

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• The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

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  Men, Water, Golden

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.466

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• It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Death, Seems

  Ouida (1882). “In Maremma: A Story”

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• Excess always carries its own retribution.

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  Excess, Retribution, Carrie

  Ouida (1884). “Princess Napraxine”

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• A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

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  Vices, New Life, Lessons

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• Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

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  Envy, Emulation, Virtue

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• Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

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  Art, Belief

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.12, Ouida

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