Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
ADA LEVERSONEverything comes to the man who won’t wait.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.
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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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