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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

Ada Leverson

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Charm Charmed Charming Cheerful Eglantine Herself People
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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Attention Most People Seen Through Visible Vision
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
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Beautiful Boo Oscar Publish Reading Suggested
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Already Course Futurist Past Well
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only
ADA LEVERSON

Credited Desert Intuition Man Marvellous Often Real
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Cod Serve
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
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Cessation Joy Pain Passive Satisfaction
There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
ADA LEVERSON

Amusement Imagination Luxurious Perfection Point Something Theory
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Intuition Man Perhaps Quality Seen Women
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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Cheerful Literature Man Real Unexpected Weak Young
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
ADA LEVERSON

Great Happiness Ideal Man Thinking Wife Woman
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Delightful Gambling Suspense Torture World
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
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Children Doll Elaborate Giving Happier Pie Rag
When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits
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Banging Depressing Drum Man Real Shrieking Young
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
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Domesticity Home Husband Passion

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

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