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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.

Ada Leverson

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 LEVERSON

Depresses Impression Naturally Ought Person Since
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSON

Attention Most People Seen Through Visible Vision
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
ADA LEVERSON

Already Course Futurist Past Well
Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
ADA LEVERSON

Appearance Extremely Merit Modesty People
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSON

Black Look Preverse Suit Well Woman
It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
ADA LEVERSON

Always Failure One Requirement Something Wish
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
ADA LEVERSON

Charm Charmed Charming Cheerful Eglantine Herself People
When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
ADA LEVERSON

Believe Fade Ideal Passion Realize Trust Worship
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
ADA LEVERSON

Banging Depressing Drum Man Real Shrieking Young
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Betrayal Betrayed Hold Person Position Rule Superior Two
Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
ADA LEVERSON

Beautiful Book Gray Meandering Oscar Poem Text Tiniest
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
ADA LEVERSON

Causes Curious Domestic Infectious Life Propensity Suffering
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Domesticity Home Husband Passion
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
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSON

Know Letter Understand Wish Woman Writing
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Crisis Dense Domestic Fatally Tragedy Usually Wrong

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