Ouida — English Novelist born on January 07, 1839, died on January 25, 1908

Ouida was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé... (wikipedia)

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.