Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida

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Ouida. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida

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ARIADNE

CHANDOS

FOLLE-FARINE

IDALIA

A VILLAGE COMMUNE

PUCK

"HE CHOSE DEATH RATHER THAN UNFAITHFULNESS. HE KNEW NO BETTER. HE WAS A DOG."

TWO LITTLE WOODEN SHOES

FAME

MOTHS

IN A WINTER CITY

A LEAF IN THE STORM

A DOG OF FLANDERS

A BRANCH OF LILAC

SIGNA

TRICOTRIN

A PROVENCE ROSE

PIPISTRELLO

HELD IN BONDAGE

PASCARÈL

IN MAREMMA

MOTHS

UNDER TWO FLAGS

STRATHMORE

FRIENDSHIP

WANDA

THE END. FOOTNOTE

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Ouida

Selected from the Works of Ouida

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Well, no doubt it is heaven's mercy that we can do so; it saves from madness such thinking souls as are amongst us.

"My dear, of love there is very little in the world. There are many things that take its likeness: fierce unstable passions and poor egotisms of all sorts, vanities too, and many other follies—Apatê and Philotês in a thousand masquerading characters that gain great Love discredit. The loves of men, and women too, my dear, are hardly better very often than Minos' love for Skylla; you remember how he threw her down from the stern of his vessel when he had made the use of her he wished, and she had cut the curls of Nisias. A great love does not of necessity imply a great intelligence, but it must spring out of a great nature, that is certain; and where the heart has spent itself in much base petty commerce, it has no deep treasury of gold on which to draw; it is bankrupt from its very over-trading. A noble passion is very rare; believe me; as rare as any other very noble thing."

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