Ouida
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"Ouida" was the pseudonym of the English novelist "Maria Louise Ramé" (although she preferred to be known as "Marie Louise de la Ramée").

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

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

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

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

Could we see when and where we would meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

A short absence is the safest.

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

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