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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Ada Leverson

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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Extent Followed People Proportion Treasure Value
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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Cheerful Literature Man Real Unexpected Weak Young
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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Credited Desert Intuition Man Marvellous Often Real
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Intuition Man Perhaps Quality Seen Women
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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Black Look Preverse Suit Well Woman
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Anything Carry People Said Sarcastic
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Come Easy Everything Man Patience Wait Waiting
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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Either Man Mean Nice Thing Woman
I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
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Beautiful Boo Oscar Publish Reading Suggested
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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Happy May People Remain Remember Talking
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Eye Feet Look Man Optimist Person Pessimist
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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Crisis Dense Domestic Fatally Tragedy Usually Wrong
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Know Letter Understand Wish Woman Writing
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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Domesticity Home Husband Passion
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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Depresses Impression Naturally Ought Person Since
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Delightful Gambling Suspense Torture World

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