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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.

Ada Leverson

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
ADA LEVERSON

Credited Desert Intuition Man Marvellous Often Real
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
ADA LEVERSON

Already Course Futurist Past Well
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
ADA LEVERSON

Delightful Gambling Suspense Torture World
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

Happy May People Remain Remember Talking
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
ADA LEVERSON

Infidelity Morning Night Noon Reson Suspect
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
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
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
Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
ADA LEVERSON

Convention Decency Fog Hypocrisy Romance Shadow
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Cessation Joy Pain Passive Satisfaction
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
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
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
ADA LEVERSON

Cod Serve
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.
ADA LEVERSON

Either Man Mean Nice Thing Woman
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
ADA LEVERSON

Know Letter Read Until Woman
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

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