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The author gives some very wide conditions for the monotonicity of the divergence intgral \(-\oint f(x) dt\) of the Liénard system \[ {dx\over dt}= y,\quad {dy\over dt}= -f(x)y- g(x).\tag{1} \] By using these he is able to get a theorem on the uniqueness of limit cycles, which extends theorems by X. W. Zheng, W. A. Coppel, et al. As a by-product, he completes the proof of the uniqueness of limit cycles for the quadratic system \[ {dx\over dt}= -y+ cx+ dx^2+ bxy+ ay^2,\quad {dy\over dt}= x(1+ y),\tag{2} \] and shows that in the proof of \textit{B. Coll} and \textit{J. Llibre} [Qualitative theory of differential equations, 3rd Colloq., Szeged/Hung. 1988, Colloq. Math. Soc. János Bolyai 53, 111-123 (1990; Zbl 0781.34040)], there is still a gap.