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.
ADA LEVERSONThe Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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!
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
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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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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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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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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