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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5497/">Quotes by <em>Ouida</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Ouida (January 7, 1839 January 25, 1908) was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ram (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Rame). · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."

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"Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness."

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"A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run."

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

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

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"Petty laws breed great crimes."

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"In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth."

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"Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all."

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"If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it."

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