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1. "Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye." ~ Ouida
2. "A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run." ~ Ouida
3. "Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness." ~ Ouida
4. "Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey." ~ Ouida
5. "To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery." ~ Ouida
6. "An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life." ~ Ouida
7. "What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda" ~ Ouida
8. "In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?In her contempt and dread of yielding to mere amorous weakness had she stifled and denied the cry of pity, the cry of conscience?To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite. To forgive wrongs darker than death or night. To defy power which seems omnipotent. To love and live to hope till hope creates from it's own wreck the thing it contemplates. Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent.This had been the higher, diviner way which she had missed, this obligation from the passion of the past which she had left unfulfilled, unaccepted.Now the misgiving arose in her whether she had mistaken arrogance for duty; whether, cleaving so closely to honor she had forgotten the obligation of mercy." ~ Ouida
9. "I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman." ~ Ouida
10. "I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not." ~ Ouida
11. "He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women." ~ Ouida
12. "Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?" ~ Ouida
13. "There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--"Wanda" ~ Ouida
14. "The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace." ~ Ouida
15. "Her life had been altogether artificial; she had always been a great garden lily in a hot-house, she had never known what it was to be blown by a fresh breeze on a sun-swept moorland like a heather flower. The hot-house shelters from all chills and is full of perfume, but you can see no horizon from it; that alone is the joy of the moorland." ~ Ouida
16. "I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common." ~ Ouida
17. "One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda" ~ Ouida
18. "Petty laws breed great crimes." ~ Ouida

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I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream."
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