an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSONLooking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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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 depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can’t be real. It ought to be but it isn’t. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn’t say it.
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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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All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
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Since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
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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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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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