an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSONA butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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.
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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
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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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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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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.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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