Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSONShe could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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
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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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