“When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.”

— Ouida

Source: Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874), Chapter II

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British novelist 1839–1908

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